In consequence you attribute to Monsieur Gorka the quality of the insulted party; you are over-hasty.

He is merely the plaintiff, up to this time.
It is very different." "But by rights he is the insulted party," interrupted Ardea.

"Restrained or not, it constitutes a threat of assault.

I did not wish to claim to be a duellist by telling you of my engagements.

But this is the A B C of the 'codice cavalleresco', if the insult be followed by an assault, he who receives the blow is the offended party, and the threat of an assault is equivalent to an actual assault.