Captain Tremayne has been arrested for killing Count Samoval in a duel.

A duel may be a violation of the law as recently enacted by Lord Wellington, but it is not an offence against honour; and to say that a man cannot have fought a duel because a man is incapable of anything base or treacherous or sly is just to say a very foolish and meaningless thing." "Oh, quite so," the adjutant, admitted.

"But if Tremayne denies having fought, if he shelters himself behind a falsehood, and says that he has not killed Samoval, then I think the statement assumes some meaning." "Does Captain Tremayne say that ?" she asked him sharply.
"It is what I understood him to say last night when I ordered him under arrest." "Then," said Sylvia, with full conviction, "Captain Tremayne did not do it." "Perhaps he didn't," Sir Terence admitted.

"The court will no doubt discover the truth.

The truth, you know, must prevail," and he looked at his wife again, marking the fresh signs of agitation she betrayed.
Mullins coming to set fresh covers, the conversation was allowed to lapse.