Suddenly he awoke with a start at the sound of a sharp ring at the bell.

He sprang up in surprise.

It was dawn.

It was about seven o'clock in the morning.
Never dreaming what could be the motive for so early a visit, and thinking that someone had mistaken the door, he again lay down, and was about to resume his slumber, when a second ring at the bell, still louder than the first, completely aroused him.

He got up in his night-shirt and opened the door.
Michel de Bourges and Theodore Bac entered.