The fact sufficed for the establishment of a good understanding between us.
We at last saw our female friends approach.

They brought us another excellent dinner, for which we had a still more excellent appetite.
During the time we dined, they informed us that everything was proceeding as favourably as we could expect, and that they had no doubt of success.

When taking leave of us, however, one of them pressed a little note into my hand, and they disappeared in the darkness.

I burned to learn what the note contained.

With the assistance of our new friend we found lodgings in the neighbourhood, where I read that the student failing in his enterprise, and being afraid to compromise himself further, left that very night for college.