An intimate breakfast, touched with the sorrow of parting. At one o’clock R. brings me to the station; I take Fidi with me to Altenburg. – The “Farewell, wife”, with its intense, repressed anguish, brings vividly before me all that has influenced and determined my life. At seven in the evening in Altenburg with the orthopedist, Frau Dr. Herz; soon thereafter the children from the school [1]: laughter and weeping! – – –
Revised English translation by Jo Cousins.