“Difference in training.”

“Rot! It’s the sized hat a man wears. I’d give fifty guineas to see the old fellow in action. But, I say; recall the argument we had before you went to Paris?”

“Yes.”

“Well, I win. Saw him bang across the street this morning.”

Abbott muttered something.

“What was that?”

“Nothing.”

“Sounded like ‘dem it’ to me.”

“Maybe it did.”

“Heard about him in Paris?”