The chief equerry will hold his stirrup, and help him to dismount.

The emperor, followed by his suite, will enter the castle, and silently, according to his custom, ascend the stairs and go to the hall where he receives his marshals; there, as he so frequently does, he will dismiss all who are present with a wave of his hand and pass on into his study, which adjoins his sleeping-room." "Well, it must be admitted that so far the affair has a glimmer of feasibility and probability," said her father, smiling.

"But I should be very anxious about the continuation.

Would Roustan, who undresses the emperor every evening, also be deceived by the masquerade, or would the conspirators attempt to abduct him also?
And then--has it been forgotten that before going to rest the emperor now works an hour every evening with his private secretary, Bourrienne ?" "Bourrienne is one of the conspirators.

He will enter the room with his portfolio and remain there an hour, after first bringing to the anteroom the order, in the emperor's name, to make no further reports to him that evening, as he was wearied and therefore wished to go to rest early.