Many hours later the session was interrupted, and the king was asked to return the next day.
That evening Antonia had to resort to all her sweetness as a mother to force the king to sleep and, to make sure he didn't cheat, she remained close to him almost all night.
Luigi was tired, too tired to really rest; but he knew he had to at least try if he wanted to arrive the next morning with a minimum of mental clarity.
He had spent the whole afternoon locked in his rooms, eating almost nothing, despite the fact that the councilors who had come with the usual papers requiring his signature and submitting to him the usual countless daily problems to be solved, had insisted that he go out to distract his thoughts for a while.
Towards evening he had gone to the chapel and there he had prayed f
