It did better than that. Some ten days after his return to the hostel—ten days spent in fitful pursuit of his usual duties, so long as they did not take him near the quarter of the town frequented by Froulish and Betty—it announced the cases that were to come up at the assizes the following day. Once again Charles’s best clothes came out of storage, and the next morning he waited outside the building for an hour, to make sure of a seat in the court’s public gallery.