has _such_
books to read.

October 24th. When I look at Father I always think of the novel _The
Power of Woman_; of course leaving Signe out of account. Hella hopes
she'll be able to get hold of some other book, but it's not so easy to
do without her mother finding it out, for she often lends books to her
friends. Then there would be an awful row. We certainly don't want to
read _The Little Brother's Book_, the title does not attract us; but
there's a novel called _The Comedy of Marriage_, it must be splendid; we
_must_ get that whatever happens.

October 26th. The Bruckners are going to keep on their flat, and Hella's
grandmother will come and live there; only the Herr _General!!!_ is
going to C., and of course Hella's mother too. Lizzi will stay, for she
is taking cooking lessons, since she is to be _married_ in Mid-Lent.

October 31st. Hella's parents left to-day, she cried frightfully, for
she did so want to go with them. Lizzi was quite unconcerned, for she
is engaged already, and the Baron, her fiance, is coming at Christmas,
either to Vienna or Cracow; he does not care which.

November 4th. Some of the girls in our class were furious in the German
lesson to-day. One or two of the girls did not know the proper places
for commas, and Prof. Fritsch hinted that we had learned nothing at all
in previous years. We understood perfectly well that he was aiming at
Frau Doktor M., whose German lessons were 10 times or rather 100 times
better than Professor F.'s. And on this very matter of punctuation Frau
Doktor M. took a tremendous lot of trouble and gave us lots of examples.
Besides, whether one has a good style or not does not depend upon
whether one puts a _comma_ in the right place. The two Ehrenfelds, who
towards the end were awfully fond of Frau Doktor M., say that we, who
were Frau Doktor M.'s favourites, ought to write a composition without a
single comma, just to show him. That's a splendid idea, and Hella and I
will do it like a shot if only the others can be trusted to do it too.

November 6th. This year all the classes _must_ have at least two outings
every month, even in winter. If that had been decided in the last school
year, when Frau Doktor M. was still there, I should certainly have gone
every time. But this year, when she has left, we can't enjoy it. Frau
Doktor St. is awfully nice, but not like Frau Doktor M. Besides, we go
somewhere with Father every Sunday, Hella comes with us, and Lizzi if
she