Did this guy not hang out with guys when he was a teenager? Talking about your "fighting mood" is a sure sign of a total wimp. Man, he just doesn't get it.
Of course silly!
He 'summered' with young, Frenchmen on the Brittany Coast of France... and what a 'saucy' bunch they were! He got his 'hard-edge' by hustling rich, French widows for pocket money. At extravagant affairs he would eat his caviar with a butterknife... how bold can you get?!