CHAPTER XXV

THE MAN IN THE CAR LIFE is largely made up of little things, but perspective in human affairs is not a gift common to youth. It had required a great effort on the part of Adele Leamington to ask a man to tea, but, once that effort was made, she had looked forward with a curious pleasure to the function. At the moment Michael was speeding to London, she interviewed Jack Knebworth in his holy of holies. “Certainly, my dear: you may take the afternoon off. I am not quite sure what the schedule was.” He reached out his…