ten o'clock
Paris dragged her one way , the hope of meeting the Bishop of Louvain and triumphing over him , dragged her the other . But we saw her great traveling chaise hauled out of the coach house and her people busy , so we were not surprised when she met us and announced that she , with her maids and her _ maître d'hôtel _ , was ready to start with us . I allowed Beauvais to communicate this intelligence to Count Saxe , not liking to be the bearer of bad news , and I heard my master swearing furiously in his bedroom . But when he appeared in traveling dress , at ten o'clock , he was smiling and polite as usual , and expressed great joy at being allowed to journey in Madame Riano 's suite . Count Saxe was a prudent as well as a courageous man , and he never belittled his antagonists , least of all Madame Riano . He often said he reckoned Madame Riano to be the first warrior of the age with Prince Eugene and Marshal the Duke of Berwick a considerable distance behind . At ten o'clock the start was made , Madame Riano in her traveling chaise leading .