The seconds of the duel will be forthcoming; and they will tell us who were the principals." "There were no seconds," she informed him.
"No seconds!" he cried in horror.

"D' ye mean they just fought a rough and tumble fight ?" "I mean they never fought at all.

As for this tale of a duel, I ask your lordship: Had Captain Tremayne desired a secret meeting with Count Samoval, would he have chosen this of all places in which to hold it ?" "This ?" "This.

The fight--whoever fought it--took place in the quadrangle there at midnight." He was overcome with astonishment, and he showed it.
"Upon my soul," he said, "I do not appear to have been told any of the facts.

Strange that O'Moy should never have mentioned that," he muttered, and then inquired suddenly: "Where was Tremayne arrested ?" "Here," she informed him.
"Here?
He was here, then, at midnight?
What was he doing here ?" "I don't know.