It was enough, however.

Astrardente had gathered that Casalverde was to fight Spicca the next day, and that the affair begun that morning had not yet reached its termination.

He determined that he would not again be guilty of not knowing what was going on in society; and with the intention of rising early on the following morning, he found Corona, and rather unceremoniously told her it was time to go home.
On the next day the Duca d'Astrardente walked into the club soon after ten o'clock.

On ordinary occasions that resort of his fellows was entirely empty until a much later hour; but Astrardente was not disappointed to-day.

Twenty or thirty men were congregated in the large hall which served as a smoking-room, and all of them were talking together excitedly.