eight o'clock
Luis wanted her to have a doctor . `` But why ? '' she said ; `` Jacoba 's services will be quite sufficient , and it would be dangerous to trust the secret to anybody else . '' The first symptoms came on in the early morning , so she kept her bed ; but it was not until eight o'clock that she sent for Jacoba , who had been sleeping for some days in the house on pretence of making curtains . Then they were both locked in the room where everything in the way of linen was prepared ; and without a groan , without an unnecessary movement , this brave woman went through the ordeal . The little creature was subsequently taken away by Jacoba in a bundle of linen after the servants had been sent out on various pretexts . The count wept with joy and admiration at the happy solution of the difficulty .