Chapter 13 Summary

The players are given a short time to change their clothes and remove their makeup before they are escorted to the castle. They are told to bring only their costumes. Margaret stays behind. The group travels to the castle on mules, with guards both in front and behind them. When they arrive, they are led up a stone staircase into the chamber where they will stay. The chamber is a square stone room with hay on the ground to sleep on. The guards tell them that the Lord has gone to bed for the night and says that the room overlooks the tiltyard where the jousting will take place the following day. The Lord will require their services after the jousting is over. Before they go to bed, the actors decide that they will perform the Nativity for the Lord de Guise.

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