y black frock. It suits my mood better.

August 30th. I believe the Schs. are leaving to-morrow. At least the old
gentleman said to Father the day before yesterday: "Thank the Lord, we
shall soon be able to enjoy the comforts of home once more." That is
what Hella's grandmother used to say before they came back from the
country. And to-day I saw two great trunks standing in the passage just
outside Herr Scharrer's room. Oswald thinks the old gentleman charming;
well, there's no accounting for tastes. I don't believe he's ever
spoken to S., though he is a German Nationalist too, but of a different
section; Oswald belongs to the Sudmark, and S. abused that section
frightfully when I told him that Oswald belonged to the Sudmark.

August 31st. He has really gone to-day, that is, the whole family has
gone. They came to bid us goodbye yesterday after supper, and they left
this morning by the 9 o'clock train to Innsbruck. And his hands are not
clammy, I paid particular attention to the point; it is pure imagination
on Dora's part. He and Oswald greeted one another with Hail! That's a
splendid salutation, and I shall introduce it between Hella and me.

September 2nd. The Weiners left to-day too, because people are really
beginning to stare at their mother too much. When Olga said goodbye to
me she told me she hated having to travel with her mother and whenever
possible she would lag behind a little so that people should not know
they belonged together.

September 4th. I never heard of such a thing!! S. has come back, alone
of course. Everyone is indignant, for he has only come back because of
Fraulein A., the actress girl. But Oswald defends him like anything.
This afternoon Frau Lunda said to Aunt Dora: "It's simply scandalous,
and his parents certainly ought not to have allowed him to come, even if
the girl's mother does not know any better." Then Oswald said: "Excuse
me, Frau Lunda, Scharrer is no longer a schoolboy who must cling to
his mother's apron-string; such tutelage would really be unworthy of a
full-grown German." I was so pleased that he gave a piece of his mind
to Frau L., for she is always glaring at one and is so frantically
inquisitive. And _tutelage_ is such an impressive word, S. used it once
when he was speaking of his sister and why she had never married. Frau
L. was furious. She turned to Aunt Dora and said: "Young men naturally
take one another's part, until they are fathers themselves and then they
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