Both men rose to their feet and Campbell left to find Mary and Augustus John. In conversation with them, Campbell claimed to have won the fight and alleged that the cut on his face was made by the buttons on Epstein's waistcoat as Campbell had lifted him over his head. In a 1944 conversation in an Oxford pub, Campbell told the story of the brawl to C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien and claimed to have put Epstein in the hospital for a week.