The cavaliers then remounted and escorted the Queen to Namur, Don John riding by the side of the litter and conversing with her all the way.

It was late in the evening when the procession arrived in the city.
The streets had, however, been brilliantly illuminated; houses and shops, though it was near midnight, being in a blaze of light.

Don John believing that no attentions could be so acceptable at that hour as to provide for the repose of his guest, conducted the Queen at once to the lodgings prepared for her.

Margaret was astonished at the magnificence of the apartments into which she was ushered.

A spacious and stately hall, most gorgeously furnished, opened into a series of chambers and cabinets, worthy, in their appointments, of a royal palace.