seven o'clock
Then the king amused the children with riddles , which he had found in a collection of old newspapers . All kindly exerted themselves to send Louis cheerful to bed . He was too young , they thought , to lie down with so sad a heart as they each had every night in their prison . However busy Clery might be , he never failed to be in the king 's little study at seven o'clock . Regularly at that hour every evening , a crier stood in the street , close by the tower of the Temple , and proclaimed what had been done that day in the Assembly , the Magistrates ' Hall , and in the army . This crier was no doubt sent , or induced to stand in that particular place , by friends of the royal family . In the little turret-room , while all was silent there , Clery could catch what the crier said : and he found means to whisper it to the queen when she had heard Louis say his prayers , and when Clery put him into bed .