Next following

The sure sign of a lawyer who was soundly, but not sufficiently, beaten as a Clerk.

The “next following” day speaks to that nervousness that the day you have in mind is not the one immediately following the one at hand, but one falling some indeterminate time —four days, eight days, who knows, even three hundred and fifty-seven days — in the future.

It pains one to think this kind of argument, the type you'd expect from that ginger girl on Just William to mount to avoid giving you back you pencil sharpener