long time that whenever anyone pays
_me_ attention Dora is _unsympathetic_, naturally enough. By the way, on
Sunday I got a charming letter from Anneliese. I must answer it to-day.

August 22nd. Oswald is awfully nice. He did not forget my birthday, but
he says that at that time he was stoney, in student's slang that means
that he hadn't any money, and then he could not find anything suitable,
but that he will repair the omission as soon as we get back to Vienna.
But I don't know what I should like. Oswald is going to stay until
we all go back to Vienna, and we are making a few excursions _by
ourselves_. That is really the best way after all. I am not much with
the Weiners now, for we had a little tiff on the big excursion. But
Nelly is rather taken with Oswald, so she came twice to our table
to-day, once about a book we had lent her, and once to arrange for a
walk.

August 24th. It is really absurd that one's own brother can think such
a lot of one; but if he does, I suppose he knows. Oswald said to
me to-day: "Gretl, you are so smart I could bite you. How you are
developing." I said: "I don't want anyone to bite me," and he said: "Nor
do I," but I was awfully delighted, though he is only my brother. He
can't stand Marina, and as a man he finds Dora too stupid; I think he's
right, really. And I simply can't understand Dr. P., that he can always
find something to talk about to Dora. He has hardly said 10 words to me
yet. Still, I don't care.

August 27th. We went up the Matscherkogel yesterday, and we had a lovely
view. The two boys came, for they had begged their father to let them;
but of course Aunt Alma and Marina did not come. Oswald calls Aunt Alma
_Angular Pincushion_, but only when Father isn't there, for after all
she is Father's sister. The Weiners wanted to come too, but I said
that my brother was staying only a few days more, and that this was a
"farewell excursion _en famille_." They were rather hurt, but they have
made me very angry by the way in which they will go on talking about S.
in front of me, on purpose, saying that he is engaged or is going to
be engaged to the actress girl against his father's will. What does
it matter to _me_? They keep on exchanging glances when they say that,
especially Olga, who is really rather stupid. I am so sad now at times
that I simply can't understand how I could have enjoyed myself so much
on the big excursion. I'm always thinking of dear Mother, and I often
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