CHAPTER XXVIII.
THE ROAD.
In a moment, the clock struck eleven.
Every stroke penetrated the hearts of the fugitives, and caused them to tremble.
They went out, one by one. But how were they able to make a passage to the court, you will ask? This is how it was.
Madame de Rochereul, whose duties had finished on the 12th, occupied a little chamber which opened into another, which had not been used for six months.
The empty apartment was M. Villequier’s, first gentleman of the bed-chamber. It was empty because M. Villequier had emigrated.
That apartment, situate on the ground floor, had a door opening into the Cour des Princes.
On one side, the chamber of Madame de Rochereul opened both into one belonging to M. Villequier and Madame Royale.
On the 11th, the moment that Madame Rochereul quitted the château, the King and Queen visited her apartment.