About two in the morning
To-night I will give her opium . During her sleep , we will dress her as she was at Studzianka , and place her in the carriage . I will follow you in another vehicle . '' About two in the morning , the sleeping countess was placed in the carriage and wrapped in heavy coverings . A few peasants with torches lighted up this strange abduction . Suddenly , a piercing cry broke the silence of the night . Philippe and the doctor turned , and saw Genevieve coming half-naked from the ground-floor room in which she slept .