About eleven o’clock
`` You know very well I need a pretext to be out to-night . It is true , I have Madame de Belleville , but this is better ; for who knows whether my mother does not hear of all that goes on at Marie 's ? '' Monsieur de Solern , who was to follow the king , asked if he might not take a few of his Germans to patrol the streets , and Charles consented . About eleven o'clock the king , who was now very gay , set forth with his three courtiers , -- namely , Tavannes and the two Gondis . `` I 'll go and take my little Marie by surprise , '' said Charles IX . to Tavannes , `` as we pass through the rue de l'Autruche . '' That street being on the way to the rue Saint-Honore , it would have been strange indeed for the king to pass the house of his love without stopping .