[If] someone [close] to him dies, he does not leave the entrance of his palace. R’ Yehudah says: If he wishes to go out after the bier he may go out, for so we find concerning David that he went out after the bier of Abner, as it is stated: And King Da-vid followed the bier. They said to him: This was only to placate the people. When they feed him the mourner’s meal, all the people sit on the floor and he sits on the dargash.