The doctors reported that the Admiral's state was favourable; and although all would have been glad to be on their way south, they regarded the detention of a few days as a matter of little importance.

Listening to their talk about the court entertainments and pleasures, Philip quite shook off his uneasiness, and was angry with himself for having listened to Pierre's prognostications of evil.
"All these Huguenot lords know France and the Parisians better than I do," he said to himself.

"No thought of danger occurs to them.

It is not even thought necessary that a few of them should take up their abode at the Admiral's.

They have every faith in the king's protestations and pledges for their safety." Philip dined at the Louvre, and it was ten o'clock before he returned to his lodging.