Although he was initially hesitant, saying that "competition in London is on quite a different scale, and if I failed there, I would have lost everything I have built up here", a case he took in 1920 changed the situation.
最初，他對建議有所顧慮，認為「倫敦的競爭程度頗為不同，如果我在那邊失敗，我將會失去在這裡建立的一切」，不過他在1920年參與的一宗官司卻改變了他的想法。