The Fool's Love Story by Rafael Sabatini — Read

Now it chanced that, owing to a fire which had, a few days before, destroyed the Palais Savignon, in the Klosterstrasse, the marquis found himself the guest of his future father-in-law, the Graf von Lichtenau.

Upon the night in question--which a scarlet page of the Chronicles of Sachsenberg tells us was that of the 12th of August of 1635--de Savignon had retired to the room set apart in his suite as his bedchamber, just as eleven was striking.