After this answer, the guide brought the elephant out of the dense thicket, and jumped on his neck. But at the moment that he was going to start him off by a peculiar whistle, Mr Fogg stopped him and, addressing Sir Francis Cromarty, said, ‘If we could save this woman!’

‘Save this woman, Mr Fogg!’ cried the brigadier-general.

‘I have still twelve hours to spare. I can devote them to her.’

‘Why, you are a man of heart!’ said Sir Francis Cromarty.

‘Sometimes,’ replied Phileas Fogg simply, ‘when I have time.’

Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days