You wait here till my agent places that letter unopened in my hands, and you then allow me one clear half-hour to leave the house⁠—after which you resume your own freedom of action and go where you please. Third condition! You give me the satisfaction of a gentleman for your intrusion into my private affairs, and for the language you have allowed yourself to use to me at this conference. The time and place, abroad, to be fixed in a letter from my hand when I am safe on the Continent, and that letter to contain a strip of paper measuring accurately the length of my sword. Those are

my terms. Inform me if you accept them⁠—Yes or No.”