ten o'clock
When he had finished speaking , Calvert turned to the little group , `` Then , gentlemen , '' he says , `` pursuant to the plan , the King 's request having been denied , we may expect their Majesties here before ten , and shall have the honor of guarding them to Compiègne . '' As he looked around upon the little company , there was not a face but expressed some secret doubt and misgiving . The King 's timidity and vacillation were so well known that 't was impossible not to question his good faith even in this last extremity . As ten o'clock passed and eleven and no message or sign of the royal fugitives came to the anxious , impatient watchers , those secret doubts and misgivings began to be openly expressed . '' 'T is the Austrian who has kept him , I will bet a hundred louis , '' said one of the Guard 's officers , gloomily . `` I never believed she would keep faith with us -- she is too deeply committed to Brunswick -- nor will she let the King do so . '' Even while he spoke there was a sound of someone 's running hurriedly up the stairs -- they were assembled in an upper room -- and in an instant an orderly was hammering at the door , which was flung open by Monciel .