hour before
noon
To save myself is a duty that I owe as much to myself as to the Cause . But there is another duty , one that I owe my sister , whom you have so outrageously slighted , and this duty , by God 's grace , I will perform before I leave . Of your honour , monsieur , we will not speak , for reasons into which I need not enter , and I make no appeal to it . But if you have a spark of manhood left , if you are not an utter craven as well as a knave , I shall expect you on the day after tomorrow , at any hour before noon , at the Auberge de la Couronne at Grenade . There , monsieur , if you please , we will adjust our differences . That you may come prepared , and so that no time need be wasted when we meet , I send you the length of my sword . Thus ended that angry , fire-breathing epistle .