one o’clock
Then came the king , followed by his four friends , barefooted and frocked like himself . The Duc d'Anjou followed in his ordinary dress , accompanied by his Angevins . Next came the principal courtiers , and then the bourgeois . It was one o'clock when they left the Louvre . Crillon and the French guards were about to follow , but the king signed to them to remain . It was near six in the evening before they arrived before the old abbey , where they saw the prior and the monks drawn up on the threshold to wait for his majesty . The Duc d'Anjou , a little before , had pleaded great fatigue , and had asked leave to retire to his hotel , which had been granted to him .