" And when Dora said: What do you mean? I said quite
curtly: "One of our lessons did not come off, and so I took the chance
_too_ of being able to see Mother _alone_." Then she said: Did the
porter let you in without any trouble? It surprises me very much that
such _very_ young girls, who are almost children still, are allowed to
go in alone. Luckily Aunt came in at that moment and said: "Oh well,
nobody thinks Gretl quite a child now, and _both of you_ can go alone to
the hospital all right." On the way we did not speak to one another.
December 5th. For St. Nicholas day we took Mother a big flower pot, and
tied to the stick was a label on which Father had written; "Being ill
is punishable as an unpermissible offence in the sense of Section 7 the
Mothers' and Housewives' Act." Mother was frightfully amused. The doctor
says she is going on nicely, and that she will be able to come home in a
few days.
December 6th. It was awful to-day. In the evening when we were leaving
the dining-room Father said: "Gretl you have forgotten something." And
when I came back he took me by the hand and said: "Why didn't you tell
me that you want so much to see Mother _alone_? You need not make such
a secret of it." And then I burst out crying and said: "Yes, I need not
keep it secret from you, but I don't like Dora to know all about it.
Did she tell you what happened the other day?" But Father does not know
anything about my pretended headache, but only that I wanted so much to
see Mother alone.
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