This Month's Installment
I still haven't caught up from last month (in fact, I think I fell behind a bit more), so this may still be shorter than usual.
"Not quite so quickly? But more than that. What do you think one goes through when one knows: here in your nearest proximity your comrades fight in life and death, and you sun yourself on a deckchair on account of a little thing!---198---For becoming mad is much worse than the little inconvenience that the wound prepares for one!"The maid came and called the pastor to a visit in the house. As if he had waited for this moment, Fritz turned quickly to the physician: "The Russians are standing at the door. You need not deceive me, Doctor; I know it as well as you.""My colleague in Metgetken told me to-day on the telephone that his entire circle has already fled and Russians squadrons would have invaded a few places.""It is very well possible," Fritz replied calmly, "it is a matter of a few units whose breakthrough we could not hinder with the vast superiority.""I have deliberately said nothing. An imminent danger probably does not threaten us yet in Pronitten, and should it enter - in any case, I would not like to excite the old gentleman needlessly.""It would also have no point; he would, as far as I know him, never go, and you have already taken the pastor's wife to safety.""She also did not want to; she refused with such a tenacity that with her fear, I had been barely capable of making her leave her husband. But as a result of her interior agitation, her suffering made such progress that her remaining here was no longer possible.""She had left just before my arrival, to Wiesbaden. Right?"
