Still, it's not so dangerous as all that; she is able to go out
and doesn't look bad. I think Mother's awfully smart, she looks just as
well in her dressing gown as when she's dressed up to go out. Dora says
that if she had been made ill by her husband she would hate him and
would never let her daughters marry. That's all very well, but one ought
to be quite _sure_ that _that_ is why one has become ill. They say that
is why Aunt Dora doesn't like Father. Certainly Father is not so nice to
her as to other relations or to the ladies who some to see Mother. But
after all, Aunt Dora has no right to make _scenes_ about it to Father,
as Dora says she does. Mother's the only person with any right to do
that. Dora says she is afraid that it will come to Mother's having to
have an operation. Nothing would ever induce me to undergo an operation,
it must be horrible, I know because of Hella and the appendicitis. But
Dora says: "Anyone who's had five children must be used to that sort
of thing." I shall pray every night that Mother may get well without an
operation. I expect we shan't all go away together at Whitsuntide this
year, for Mother and Dora are to go to a health resort, most likely to
Franzensbad.
May 18th. It was lovely at the Richters; Walter was there from Modling,
he was awfully nice, and said I was so like my sister that it was
difficult to tell us apart.
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