At the Reform Club, Fogg and his friends discuss a recent bank robbery and the ‘The Daily Telegraph’ says that the robber is a gentleman. Rewards are offered and when the friends wonder where the thief could have gone, Fogg declares that it is possible to go around the world in eighty days. He bets twenty thousand pounds against anyone that he will make the tour of the world in eighty days or less. Fogg decide to take the train to Dover that very evening and tells his challengers that he would be back in the Reform Club, on Saturday, the 21st of December.
