About this story
Your master Phileas Fogg wagers twenty thousand pounds at his club that eighty days is enough, and you guard the timetable while the detective Fix trails you from Suez and Aouda, saved from her husband's pyre in India, joins the journey. Thirty-seven chapters carry the wager to the Reform Club, reached with a whole day gained by meeting the sun.
Who you’ll meet
Phileas Fogg, your exacting new employer, and James Forster, the servant he has just dismissed. You play Passepartout.
How it opens
At number seven Saville Row, the brass knocker reflected a punctual grey morning.
The departing servant opened before your second knock could sound.
James ForsterIf you have come about the position, you are precisely on time.
What fault could end service in a house this orderly?
James ForsterHis shaving water arrived at eighty-four degrees instead of eighty-six.
James ForsterThat clock governs the house more firmly than any master could.