"Wellies" --

Gentlemen NEVER engage with those who are their inferiors socially, financially, intellectually, or morally. Nor do gentlemen engage with cowards and criminals.

I might possibly have discounted much of your past as the peccadilloes of youth, but when I discovered that you regularily cheat at Patience! And that you even attempt to do so when you play on a computer! Well, really!

Since you are so utterly inferior to myself, and, I might add, to Miss Rutledge, I could no more meet you on a field of honour than I could do what you used to do to those poor "fags" at St. Dismas. You are utterly without honour, courage, or moral fiber and, I suspect, beyond redemption.

I have put up my revolver and life preserver. One does not need the protection afforded by honourable arms from such a slinking, bestial, quivering, opportunistic, immoral lickspittle as yourself. Instead, I am carrying an entirely appropriate dogwhip which I intend to use on you should you be unfortunate enough to cross my path.

Captain West, DSO