Around the World in Eighty Days, Chapter 3 summary
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In Chapter 3, Phileas Fogg turns a discussion of a bank robbery and faster travel into a twenty-thousand-pound wager that he can circle the world in eighty days. He commits to leaving that evening and returning to the Reform Club at a precise deadline, while calmly continuing his card game.
What happens
- Phileas Fogg follows his exact club routine before his whist partners begin discussing a theft of fifty-five thousand pounds.
- Gauthier Ralph trusts the detectives to catch the suspect, while Andrew Stuart argues that the world offers ample escape routes.
- Fogg says global travel takes eighty days, and John Sullivan supplies a newspaper itinerary supporting that estimate.
- Stuart challenges the estimate because accidents and delays threaten it, but Fogg insists these difficulties are covered.
- Fogg and five club members sign a twenty-thousand-pound wager requiring his return by December 21 at a quarter to nine p.m.
- Fogg announces his departure that evening and declines to stop playing cards to prepare.
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What to notice
Fogg rejects the uncertainty his companions emphasize. His confidence supports a wager that risks half his fortune.
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Where must Fogg return to satisfy the wager?
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