He was debating what tie would go with which waistcoat.
It was worth while debating this question, and I did debate it.
There were lots of debating clubs in the Scotch capital at that time, and Scott was a member of several.
He soon joined a debating society, composed of the best-informed persons of the little town of East Poultney,--the minister, the doctor, the lawyer, the schoolteachers, and the like.