“What’s your name?” asked Probyn.
“Stubland,” said Peter. “You Probyn?”
“Stubland,” said Probyn. “Stubland. What’s your Christian name?”
“Peter. What’s yours?”
Probyn disregarded this counter question markedly. “Simon Peter, eh! Your father got you out of the Bible, I expect. Know anything of cricket, Simon Peter?”
“Not much,” said Simon Peter.
“Can you swim?”
“No.”
“Can you fight?”
“I don’t know.”