Some officers of her household saw her pass without recognizing her, and laughed at meeting a woman between two men, at night and with a somewhat agitated air.

"They take me for a bona roba," said the queen.

On arriving at the end of the faubourg of Blois, she did not find her carriage, which was to hwe been waiting for her there.

When she had come up with it, there was a casket missing which contained her jewels; there was a hundred thousand crowns' worth in it; the casket had fallen out two hundred paces from the spot; it was recovered, and the queen-mother got into her carriage and took the road to Loches, where the Duke of Epernon had been waiting for her since the day before.

He came to meet her with a hundred and fifty horsemen.