When he went out of the room I could hear the key turn softly.

A minute later I went over and tried it, and the door was locked.
When, an hour or two after, the Count came quietly into the room, his coming awakened me, for I had gone to sleep on the sofa.

He was very courteous and very cheery in his manner, and seeing that I had been sleeping, he said, "So, my friend, you are tired?
Get to bed.

There is the surest rest.

I may not have the pleasure of talk tonight, since there are many labours to me, but you will sleep, I pray." I passed to my room and went to bed, and, strange to say, slept without dreaming.