It would have been so easy to name the next day but one.

But who could have foreseen that his friends would miss that particular train and only arrive late in the evening?
He paced his room in growing anxiety, his trouble increasing in exact proportion with the decrease of the daylight.
"Fifty marks!" he exclaimed, in dismay, as he realised more completely the dilemma in which he was placed.

"Fifty marks! It is an enormous sum to find at a moment's notice.

If they had only telegraphed me a credit at once, I could have got it from a bank--a bank--yes--but they do not know me.

That is it.