Possible Clues:

• All by myself I'd be about to be so much behind time
• Does tail wag when cut off?
• Being so late I'd overlook it's out of the way
• Separated detail so confused
• Successive notes I had put outside and set apart
• Left alone Diana returns to look over what¿s so late
• Kept apart
• Vague details about duck put in quarantine
• Ladies to assemble off the beaten track
• (Left) on one's own