Passepartout is glad to get off with the loss of his shoes

Bombay. Fogg arrives at the Great Indian Peninsular Railway terminal two days ahead of schedule, notes the margin, and waits for the train that will take him to Calcutta. He does not see Bombay. Passepartout is released to see it.

Passepartout walks through the city with the delight he brings to every new place. He reaches a beautiful Hindu temple at Malabar Hill and goes in, removing his hat at the door — the correct gesture for a European entering a church anywhere. He does not remove his shoes, which is the corresponding gesture for this temple. The Brahmin priests are offended. What happens next happens quickly: Passepartout is beaten, his shoes are torn off and thrown after him, and he is ejected into the street.

He runs back to the station, is followed by the priests who are now demanding legal action, and makes the train. The shoes are gone. The priests are furious. Fix, who has been watching, notes this for later use — it is exactly the kind of specific violation that can be used to detain a man at a convenient moment. The immediate consequence is small; the delayed consequence, at the end of the Indian journey, is an arrest warrant and forty-eight hours in prison. Passepartout does not know this yet.