She would escape not from the house of Vinicius, however, but while on the way to it.

When drunk, Vinicius had said that he would send his slaves for her in the evening.

Beyond doubt he had told the truth, which he would not have done had he been sober.

Evidently he himself, or perhaps he and Petronius, had seen Caesar before the feast, and won from him the promise to give her on the following evening.

And if they forgot that day, they would send for her on the morrow.