“I went with him last night,” the Count told Sola. “I was absolutely astonished at how many supporters His Majesty has collected in so short a time. They are ready to fight for him and they are saying that he is just the sort of King they have always wanted in their country.”
Sola was nevertheless apprehensive.
She realised the night before the Wedding when the King came in for dinner that he was looking very tired.
He had also lost weight, but there was an alert look in his eyes. What was more the way he moved made him look quite unlike the bored man who had been rude to her when she had first arrived in his country.
Now the King talked to her and the Grand Duke in a manner that told Sola that he trusted them completely.
He also relied on them both to advise him.
“Now what would you
