Sutherland considered.
"You're quite right," he admitted. "You might get over a lucky one. It's very unlikely, but you might. Therefore there would be nothing absurd about our fighting, and I oughtn't to have suggested there was. Somehow I never regarded us as in the same street. But, of course, we may be."
"We're not," I said. "As for boxing on points we're not. But fighting is different and--there you are."
He nodded.
"If you feel like that," he said, "of course----"
"I never did feel like that; in fact I never thought of it before," I told Sutherland; "but now----"
He didn't say anything, so I went on:
"It's a matter of honour in a way," I said.
"From your point of view it is, no doubt," he answered.
"Isn't it from yours?" I asked him.