"Look here; I'm not afraid of fighting, or anything like that; but I've
got religious objections to it and, in fact, though your father might
like you to fight, my father would get into a frightful bate if I did.
Really it might be jolly serious for me, and it would not matter to my
father in the least whether I won the fight or lost it."
Andrews said that had nothing to do with him; so I went on and explained
how it might have a great deal to do with him.