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[to Gizella Pálos]
Vienna, December 17, 1911
IX., Berggasse 19
Dear lady,
What I am writing to you today will remain completely between us and is totally sincere, without any embellishment, as is commensurate only with my esteem for you.
Our friend has hurt me very much and has forced me, myself, to give advice in which my feelings do not participate. When, years ago, I first learned of the relationship that he had lodged himself in, I made a face and made it very clear to him that I wished something else for him. When I then became acquainted with you, I quickly learned to esteem you and was able to concede to him that, in comparison to other husbands and lovers, he possessed incomparably more than what he had renounced. Since then,