Possible Clues:

• The RA gets back in the street
• What the backer does is not give you an advance
• Private places
• Refuses to take any further action
• How one gets back about the celebrations
• Backs away
• Goes back and stands another round of drinks (8)
• There's no advance on them ere there gets to have a start to make them
• Draws back
• Decides it was a mistake to have become engaged?