The rest would follow.

But would Alba Steno be present?
Ha, so much the better! He would be so much more at ease, if the altercation arose before her, to deceive his own wife as to the veritable reason of the duel.

Ah, he would have his dispute at any price, and from the moment that the seconds had exchanged visits the American's fate would be decided.

He knew how to render it impossible for the fellow to remain longer in Rome.

The young man was greatly wrought up by the romance of the provocation and the duel.
"How it refreshes the blood to be avenged upon two fools," said he to himself, descending from his cab and inquiring at the door of the Moorish house.
"Monsieur Maitland ?" he asked the footman, who at one blow dissipated his excitement by replying with this simple phrase, the only one of which he had not thought in his frenzy: "Monsieur is not at home." "He will be at home to me," replied Boleslas.