nine o'clock at night
`` Good-by , Philippe , '' said the viscount again and left the room . This scene was described to the examining-magistrate by the count himself , who did not see Raoul again until that evening , at the Opera , a few minutes before Christine 's disappearance . Raoul , in fact , devoted the whole day to his preparations for the flight . The horses , the carriage , the coachman , the provisions , the luggage , the money required for the journey , the road to be taken -LRB- he had resolved not to go by train , so as to throw the ghost off the scent -RRB- : all this had to be settled and provided for ; and it occupied him until nine o'clock at night . At nine o'clock , a sort of traveling-barouche with the curtains of its windows close-down , took its place in the rank on the Rotunda side . It was drawn by two powerful horses driven by a coachman whose face was almost concealed in the long folds of a muffler . In front of this traveling-carriage were three broughams , belonging respectively to Carlotta , who had suddenly returned to Paris , to Sorelli and , at the head of the rank , to Comte Philippe de Chagny .