He rode to Arwenack fully resolved to kill his calumniator.

Nothing less would satisfy him.

Arrived at that fine embattled castle of the Killigrews which commanded the entrance to the estuary of the Fal, and from whose crenels the country might be surveyed as far as the Lizard, fifteen miles away, he found Peter Godolphin there before him; and because of Peter's presence Sir Oliver was more deliberate and formal in his accusation of Sir John than he had intended.

He desired, in accusing Sir John, also to clear himself in the eyes of Rosamund's brother, to make the latter realize how entirely odious were the calumnies which Sir John had permitted himself, and how basely prompted.
Sir John, however, came halfway to meet the quarrel.

His rancour against the Pirate of Penarrow--as he had come to dub Sir Oliver--endered him almost as eager to engage as was his visitor.
They found a secluded corner of the deer-park for their business, and there Sir John--a slim, sallow gentleman of some thirty years of age--made an onslaught with sword and dagger upon Sir Oliver, full worthy of the onslaught he had made earlier with his tongue.