The bank was watched; it would never do to risk Rowley in that neighbourhood.
All I could do was to wait until the morrow evening, and present myself at the Assembly, let it end as it might.

But I must say I came to this decision with a good deal of genuine fright; and here I came for the first time to one of those places where my courage stuck.

I do not mean that my courage boggled and made a bit of a bother over it, as it did over the escape from the Castle; I mean, stuck, like a stopped watch or a dead man.

Certainly I would go to the ball; certainly I must see this morning about my clothes.

That was all decided.