CHAPTER XV

IN WHICH ADAM EXPLAINS "Adam!" "Yes, Miss Anthea?" "How much money did Mr. Bellew give you to--buy the furniture?" Miss Anthea was sitting in her great elbow-chair, leaning forward with her chin in her hand, looking at him in the way which always seemed to Adam as though she could see into the innermost recesses of his mind. Therefore Adam twisted his hat in his hand, and stared at the ceiling, and the floor, and the table before Miss Anthea, and the wall behind Miss Anthea--anywhere, but at Miss Anthea. "You ax me…