"Five of them I arranged, because I wanted to see if----"
He interrupted me.
"You go about asking chaps if they give one another 'best,' and when
they say 'no,' though they may be perfectly friendly, you go on at them
till you work up a fight."
I denied it, and he said, "You can reserve your beastly defence for the
court-martial. I've only got one more question to ask you at present,
namely, Have you ever fought anybody yourself?"