4 a.m.
`` Rather ! '' replied the marquis , with a proud smile . It was a tragic end in that night 's gay scene . Guests whose carriages were not ordered till 4 a.m. stood shivering in the hall at 11 p.m. Five hours to wait ! Meanwhile , on two special steamers the Duc de Septimominorelli and the Marquis de Smellismelli sought the shore of France . On the lonely sands between Calais and Ushant the rivals stood face to face , at a hundred paces distance . They had no seconds , so each loaded the other 's weapon .