Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days

Chapter 3: In Which a Conversation Takes Place Which Seems Likely to Cost Phileas Fogg Dear (continued)

The clock struck seven, and the party offered to suspend the game so that Mr. Fogg might make his preparations for departure.

"I am quite ready now," was his tranquil response. "Diamonds are trumps: be so good as to play, gentlemen."