Fogg bets twenty thousand pounds that he can make it around the world in eighty days or less. Stuart, one of the club members, says he would like to see Mr. Fogg disagrees, and says that these are all included. The men remark that the eighty days estimate does not account for weather, shipwrecks, railway accidents, or any other incidents that could delay a person.
Fogg says you can get around it in eighty days now, and one of the other club members confirms, referring to an estimate made by the Daily Telegraph now that the final section of railway across the Indian continent has been finished. Fogg says that the world has become smaller, and Ralph agrees, saying you can get around the entire world much more quickly than you ever could before. They wonder how far the thief could have gotten, and someone remarks that the world is such a big place that he could have gone anywhere.
The Daily Telegraph newspaper says that the thief was a gentleman, and likely did not belong to a professional band of robbers. They discuss a robbery that has occurred at the Bank of England, who stole fifty-five thousand pounds. He eats breakfast there, and begins to talk to the other club members, notably a man named Ralph. Fogg goes to the Reform Club at half past eleven in the morning, as he always does. On Passepartout's very first day on the job, Mr. Nevertheless, he thinks he and his master shall get along and is excited to begin his work. Passepartout himself is lively and proud, so it would be interesting to see how his personality meshes with Mr. Passepartout is looking forward to his new job, but is somewhat wary about his master, surprised by how serious, exact, and deliberate he is in all aspects of his life. He has recently dismissed one of these servants, and now instead is served by a Frenchman from Paris named Jean Passepartout. Fogg spends nearly all day, every day at the Reform Club's clubhouse, and has a single servant who attends to him at home. He speaks very often about the world, seeming to know so much of it, so people assume he has traveled-however, most are fairly certain that he has not left London for many years. He has a very uninteresting social life aside from being a member of the Reform Club, a private London society for gentlemen. Phileas Fogg is a wealthy man living in London.
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