A review of preceding circumstances demonstrated that such misapprehension was impossible; for he had himself proposed this day, and this hour.

This day, his attention would not otherwise be occupied; but to-morrow, an indispensible engagement was foreseen, by which all his time would be engrossed: his detention, therefore, must be owing to some unforeseen and extraordinary event.

Our conjectures were vague, tumultuous, and sometimes fearful.

His sickness and his death might possibly have detained him.
Tortured with suspense, we sat gazing at each other, and at the path which led from the road.

Every horseman that passed was, for a moment, imagined to be him.