I didn't offer them around. Sometimes coolness can go too far. I'd won that one. I looked at him for a moment. Well, it's actually impossible to immediately draw up plans for anything.
Planning takes time.
You have to get facts, find out who is going and all sorts of things. Allan Ferguson would have made a good village idiot. He lacked the panache for anything more demanding. All right, if you want me to admit that I failed to do something impossible, I failed. I had lost that one.