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`` Well ? '' said the lawyer , expectantly , and looking with some curiosity at the senator 's face . `` Well , '' said Mr. Whitredge , with marked impatience , `` he wants to see you right away . '' All day long Hilary Vane held conference in Number Seven , and at six o'clock sent a request that the Honourable Adam visit him . The Honourable Adam would not come ; and the fact leaked out -- through the Honourable Adam . `` He 's mad clean through , '' reported the Honourable Elisha Jane , to whose tact and diplomacy the mission had been confided . `` He said he would teach Flint a lesson .