Isn't It Time-Treatment?

"I never directly confronted him on the outlandish nature of his time-travel escapades. I could see no gain in embarrassing him, and to tell the truth, they were what I came for," he writes. "He dressed like a scholar of a bygone era, tweed jacket, white shirt and tie, brown trousers, and a pair of black wingtip shoes that came to perilous points."