two o'clock in the afternoon
He flung away the broken remnants of his racket , and went out cursing . Questioning the messenger further , he learnt that the shot had been fired from the house of Vilaine , a sometime tutor to the Duke of Guise , and that the horse upon which the assassin had fled had been held for him by a groom in the Guise livery . Meanwhile the Duke and Monsieur de Teligny had gone their ways with no word spoken between them -- Guise to shut himself up in his hotel and assemble his friends , Teligny to repair at once to his father-in-law . At two o'clock in the afternoon , in response to an urgent request from the Admiral , the King went to visit him , accompanied by the Queen-Mother , by his brothers Anjou and Alencon , and a number of officers and courtiers . The royal party saw nothing of the excitement which had been prevailing in the city ever since the morning 's event , an excitement which subsided at their approach . The King was gloomy , resentful , and silent , having so far refused to discuss the matter with any one , denying audience even to his mother . Catherine and Anjou were vexed by the miscarriage of the affair , anxious and no less silent than the King .