about eleven o’clock
Therefore remember , my young friends both , that your danger or death would fall heavily on those ye love and honour at home . ' So saying , he left the two youths , unwilling to seek further confidence , and Berenger held his last consultation with Sidney , to whom he gave directions for making full explanation to Walsingham in his absence , and expediting Mr. Adderley 's return to England . Osbert alone was to go to the Louvre with him , after having seen the five English grooms on board the little decked market-vessel on the Seine , which was to await the fugitives . Berenger was to present himself in the palace as in his ordinary court attendance , and , contriving to elude notice among the throng who were there lodged , was to take up his station at the foot of the stairs leading to the apartments of ladies , whence Eustacie was to descend at about eleven o'clock , with her maid Veronique . Landry Osbert was to join them from the lackey 's hall below , where he had a friend , and the connivance of the porter at the postern opening towards the Seine had been secured . Sidney wished much to accompany him to the palace , if his presence could be any aid or protection , but on consideration it was decided that his being at the Louvre was likely to attract notice to Ribaumont 's delaying there . The two young men therefore shook hands and parted , as youths who trusted that they had begun a lifelong friendship , with mutual promises to write to one another -- the one , the adventures of his flight ; the other , the astonishment it would excite .