econdly I should like to go away in the holidays anyhow for nearly
all the girls in our class are going away. Still, there's nothing to be
done. Hella's mother says she can't see why we can't all 3 go though
it simply would not work. But we can't explain it to her. Hella is so
poetical and she says "A beautiful dream vanished."

In Hella's mouth such fine words sound magnificent, but when Dora uses
such expressions they annoy me frightfully because they don't come from
her heart.

March 26th. The school performances finish today with Waves of the Sea
and Waves of Love. I'm awfully fond of the theatre, but I never write
anything about that. For anyhow the play is written by a poet and one
can read it if one wants to, and one just sees the rest anyhow. I can't
make out what Dora finds such a lot to scribble about always the day
after we've been to the theatre. I expect she's in love with one of the
actors and that's why she writes such a lot. Besides we in the second
class did not get tickets for all the performances, but only the girls
from the Fourth upwards. Still, it did not matter much to me anyhow for
we often go in the evening and on Sunday afternoons. But unfortunately I
mayn't go in the evening as a rule.

March 29th. To-day something horrible happened to Dora and me. I simply
can't write it down. She was awfully nice and said: Two years ago on the
Metropolitan Railway the same thing had happened when she was travelling
with Mother on February 15th, she can never forget the date, to Hietzing
to see Frau v. Martini. Besides her and Mother there was only one
gentleman in the carriage, Mother always travels second class. She and
Mother were sitting together and the gentleman was standing farther down
the carriage where Mother could not see him but Dora could. And as Dora
was looking he opened his cloak and -- -- --! just what the man did
to-day at the house door. And when they got out of the train Dora's boa
got stuck in the door and she had to turn round though she did not want
to, and then she saw again -- -- --! She simply could not sleep for a
whole month afterwards. I remember that time when she could not sleep
but I did not know why it was. She never told anyone except Erika and
the same thing happened to her once. Dora says that happens at least
once to nearly every girl; and that such men are "_abnormal_." I don't
really know what that means, but I did not like to ask. Perhaps Hella
will know. Of course I