s after the event. It was just the same
that time when the old gentleman in the theatre asked Hella if she was
alone there, and she snapped at him. He said: Impudent as a Jewess,
or an impudent Jewess! It was too absurd, for first of all it's not
impudent to make a clever repartee, and secondly it does not follow
because one can do it that one is a Jewess. So Hella finished up by
saying to him: "No, you've made a mistake, you are not speaking to one
of your own sort."

We break up on the 6th; but because of Dora's matriculation we are
staying here until the 11th. Then we are going to Fieberbrunn in Tyrol,
and this year we shall stay in a hotel, so I am awfully pleased. Hella
had a splendid time there last year.

July 2nd. My goodness, to-day I have . . . ., no, I can't write it plain
out. In the middle of the Physics lesson, during revision, when I was
not thinking of anything in particular, Fraulein N. came in with a paper
to be signed. As we all stood up I thought to myself: Hullo, what's
that? And then it suddenly occurred to me: Aha!! In the interval Hella
asked me why I had got so fiery red in the Physics lesson, if I'd
had some sweets with me. I did not want to tell her the real reason
directly, and so I said: "Oh no, I had nearly fallen asleep from
boredom, and when Fraulein N. came in it gave me a start." On the way
home I was very silent, and I walked so slowly (for of course one must
not walk fast _when_ . . . ) that Hella said: "Look here, what's up
to-day, that you are so frightfully solemn? Have you fallen in love
without my knowing it, or is it _at long last_ . . . .?" Then I said
"_Or is it at long last!_" And she said: "Ah, then now we're equals once
more," and there in the middle of the street she gave me a kiss. Just
at that moment two students went by and one of them said: "Give me one
too." And Hella said: "Yes, I'll give you one on the cheek which will
burn." So they hurried away. We really had no use for them: to-day!!
Hella wanted me to tell her _everything about it_; but really I hadn't
anything to tell, and yet she believed that I _wouldn't_ tell. It is
really very unpleasant, and this evening I shall have to take frightful
care because of Dora. But I must tell Aunt because I want a San-- T--.
It will be frightfully awkward. It was different in Hella's case, first
of all because she had such frightful cramps before it began so that her
mother knew all about it without being told, and secondly b