five o'clock
Accompanied by him and a few attendants , she had executed the plan in which earlier that day she had secured her scared husband 's cooperation . At midnight they had made their way along the now unguarded corridors , and descended to the vaults of the palace , whence a secret passage communicated with the chapel . Through this and across the graveyard where lay the newly buried body of the Siegneur Davie -- almost across the very grave itself which stood near the chapel door they had won to the horses waiting by Darnley 's orders in the open . And they had ridden so hard that by five o'clock of that Tuesday morning they were in Dunbar . In vain did the alarmed lords send a message after her to demand her signature of the security upon which she had duped them into counting prematurely . Within a week they were in full flight before the army at the head of which the prisoner who had slipped through their hands was returning to destroy them . Too late did they perceive the arts by which she had fooled them , and seduced the shallow Darnley to betray them .