“You are not tired, my darling?”
“How could I be tired,” Zita replied, “when I kept thinking how grateful I was to have found you and that I was not having to marry somebody like that extremely boring Margrave of Baden-Baden?”
The King laughed.
“I think he is very well suited to your sister.”
“That is what she thinks too.”
“And I am very well suited to you,” the King said, “except that I don’t believe your mother approves of me.”
“Actually, Mama thinks we are very well suited as she never approved of me either!” Zita replied and they both laughed.
A shower of rose petals prevented them from speaking until they had passed a crowd of schoolchildren.
Then the King said,
“I wanted to tell you how beautiful you looked in your wedding gown and you are just as beautiful now in your smart
