'Come, sir, a truce to your impertinence! You have meddled with me, and you must maintain it.
Must I strike you again ?' 'I will not meet you to-night,' Sir George answered firmly.

'I will be neither Lord Byron nor his victim.

These gentlemen will bear me out so far.

For the rest, if you are of the same mind to-morrow, it will be for me and not for you to ask a meeting.' 'At your service, sir,' Mr.Dunborough said, with a sarcastic bow.

'But suppose, to save trouble in the morning, we fix time and place now.' 'Eight--in Magdalen Fields,' Soane answered curtly.