nine
o’clock precisely
`` Now to business , '' said Colonel Sapt dryly ; and Rudolf laughed a little . Rudolf passed into the room . Sapt went to the king 's apartments , and asked the physician whether his Majesty were sleeping well . Receiving reassuring news of the royal slumbers , he proceeded to the quarters of the king 's body-servant , knocked up the sleepy wretch , and ordered breakfast for the king and the Count of Luzau-Rischenheim at nine o'clock precisely , in the morning-room that looked out over the avenue leading to the entrance to the new chateau . This done , he returned to the room where Rudolf was , carried a chair into the passage , bade Rudolf lock the door , sat down , revolver in hand , and himself went to sleep . Young Bernenstein was in bed just now , taken faint , and the constable himself was acting as his substitute ; that was to be the story , if a story were needed . Thus the hours from two to six passed that morning in the castle of Zenda .