Part 1, Chapter 13 Summary

Will, the servant, removes Merivel to bed and comes to find out he has contracted measles. For two weeks, Merivel is incapacitated in his bed, sleeping sixteen hours a day. He awakens to discover that Celia, her maid, Finn and Heir Hummel, portrait completed, have left the house in the King's royal coach. Feeling really sorry for himself now, a week later he receives a summons from the King to go to London. He and Will take a coach and make the journey in three days, meeting the King at one of his royal tennis courts. Merivel, still weak from the measles, is made to play the King in seven games of tennis. Merivel wins only one and must put up with the King's ridicule. They retreat to the Psychic Garden where the King drops his bombshell. He is evicting Merivel...