It was plain that you had retired for the night.
"I knew not how soon you might find occasion to enter the closet.

I was alive to all the horrors of detection, and ruminated without ceasing, on the behaviour which it would be proper, in case of detection, to adopt.
I was unable to discover any consistent method of accounting for my being thus immured.
"It occurred to me that I might withdraw you from your chamber for a few minutes, by counterfeiting a voice from without.

Some message from your brother might be delivered, requiring your presence at his house.

I was deterred from this scheme by reflecting on the resolution I had formed, and on the possible evils that might result from it.

Besides, it was not improbable that you would speedily retire to bed, and then, by the exercise of sufficient caution, I might hope to escape unobserved.
"Meanwhile I listened with the deepest anxiety to every motion from without.