About noon
Our spies reported that the streets were thronged with excited people , cheering for Guise and threatening the Huguenots with death . `` There is some one behind all this , '' said Felix , `` some one working in secret to stir up the passions of the citizens . Unless the king interferes there will be a terrible outbreak shortly . '' About noon -- we had not long risen from dinner -- a man arrived bearing news that , to our heated imaginations , was startling indeed . A great meeting was taking place at the _ Hôtel de Guise _ , where our bitterest enemies had assembled . The spy brought a list of the names , and as he recounted them one by one our feeling of uneasiness deepened . '' 'T is a plot against us , '' said one , `` with Guise at the head , and Anjou secretly favouring it . ''