three o'clock
With him came some messengers from Paris , to entreat the king , among other things , to come and live among his people at Paris . This was the very thing the king was least disposed to do ; but he dared not say `` No . '' He promised to consider of it . Lafayette and his companions then went away ; and between two and three o'clock almost everybody but the guards went to bed . I say _ almost _ everybody . The queen desired her ladies to go to rest ; but two of them were still uneasy and distrustful , and thought that the queen 's servants should not all sleep while thousands of people who hated her were round about the very doors . They watched in the ante-chamber : and it was their vigilance which saved her life .