At the same hour that M. de Choiseul passed the barrier the three guards were admitted to the presence of the King, and then shut up in an ante-chamber. At ten o’clock M. de Lafayette was announced. He was attended by MM. de Gouvion and De Romeuf, his aides-de-camp. Madame de Rochereul, his mistress, had told him that the flight was arranged for the same night. The Queen and Madame Elizabeth had gone in the evening, without an escort, to promenade in the Bois de Boulogne. M. de Lafayette, with the exquisite politeness which was one of his characteristics, asked the Queen if she had enjoyed her stroll; and added, “Your Majesty was wrong to stay out so late.” “Why so, sir?” asked the Queen. “Because the evening fog might do you an injury.” “What! a fog in the middle of June?” said she. “In truth, unless I manufactured one on purpose to hide our flight, which people talk so much about, I do not know where I should find one.” “The fact is, madame,” replied the General, “people not only talk about your flight, but I have received information that it will take place this evening.” “Ah!” said the Queen; “I engage that it is M. de Gouvion who has given you that good news.” “Why I, madame?” said the young officer, blushing. “I do not know,” replied the Queen, “except that, perhaps, you hear a great deal more than is true at the château. Wait! Here is M. Romeuf, who hears no news; I am sure he will contradict the rumor.” “There is no great credit in doing that, madame,” said the young man, “when the King has given his word to the Assembly not to leave Paris.” At ten o clock, General Lafayette and his aides-de-camp retired. When they were gone, the Queen and Madame Elizabeth summoned their domestics to perform the necessary offices of their toilettes, and at eleven, as was their custom, they retired for the night. The doors shut, each commenced to dress. The Queen and Madame Elizabeth assisted each other. They had some plain dresses, and hats, with hoods, to hide the face. They had scarcely finished their disguise, when the King entered, in his costume of intendant. For the last eight days, the King’s valet, Hue, had been in the habit of going out in the costume the King now wore, and by the same door the King intended to depart from. This was done in order to accustom the sentinel to a man dressed in gray. On arriving, he released the three guards from their hiding-place. Madame Royale was ready, but the Dauphin was not. He had been awakened from his first sleep; and so, for the sake of disguise, it had been arranged to dress him like a girl. He made all sorts of objections to the humiliating costume. He asked, “If he were intended to act in a comedy?” They replied “Yes.” And as he liked comedies, he allowed them to finish his toilette. The gardes du corps received their last instructions. They were to travel as far as Bondy on M. de Fersen’s horses; after that they were to take post.