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During the debate a note was brought to him , which ran as follows : -- I have got your letter this moment . Of course we must meet . I hunt on Tuesday , and go down by the early train ; but I will come to town on Wednesday . We shall require to be private , and I will therefore be at your rooms at one o'clock on that day . -- C. Phineas at once perceived that the note was a hostile note , written in an angry spirit , -- written to one whom the writer did not at the moment acknowledge to be his friend . This was certainly the case , whatever Lord Chiltern may have said to his sister as to his friendship for Phineas . Phineas crushed the note into his pocket , and of course determined that he would be in his rooms at the hour named .