About
eleven o'clock
They took the Prince to Vienna ; he could not take one step without his father 's permission . The conversion was still secret , although the reason for sparing the sensibility of the queen-mother ceased , for she died . In October of 1717 , on a certain morning , the Count von Lutzelburg ordered the whole court to be ready at ten o'clock in the anteroom of the Prince . About eleven o'clock , the carriage of the papal nuncio drew up in front of the palace and Monsignor Spinoli alighted from it and was conducted to the Prince . Shortly after that there came a little man with a casket under his arm and the Count von Lutzelburg said to the courtiers that in the Prince 's room something was going on , and that the Protestants could look at it or not . The door opened , the nuncio was reading , and the Prince , not being well and lying in bed , listened with great piety . After the Mass the nuncio left and the Prince said to his Protestant courtiers : ` Gentlemen , now you know what I am , and I beg of you to follow me . '