Around the World in Eighty Days · Chapter 3

The Wager

The Reform Club, London · Evening

At the Reform Club table someone says eighty days is impossible. Fogg can rise and write a cheque, or let it pass as talk.

Fogg wagers twenty thousand pounds with the club, and that night leaves London with Passepartout. The eighty days in the original begin at this table.

Entering copies the original opening into a timeline of your own. The original itself is not changed.