Possible Clues:

• Adored hymn translated as 'Back before the storm'
• Successfully finished in TT?
• In a position to reach a goal without much further difficulty
• Assured of success in having got off the booze?
• Died after house's unkind — forget one's lines at the end?
• Having achieved one's objective
• Back and safe before the rain came
• Definitely safe or successful