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Budapest, July 12, 1912
VII., Erzsébet-körút 54
Dear Professor,
It's no use! I will already have to accept the year 1911/12 as a critical one, and for the time being I will have to give up dedicating my time to pursuits other than solving my intricate personal affairs.—The most recent events are as follows: The letter which I mentioned to you in Vienna and in which Frau G. wrote to me, among other things, that, even though she has lost me, she will eternally remain true to you and the cause should already have made me suspect something bad. But it was not until the day before yesterday that the matter became clear to me, when I had a rather long talk with Frau G.—It came out that I expected too much from her when I (tacitly) condemned her to wait quietly for what will come out of Elma's analysis, and made both their fates dependent on it.—Now, she told me herself that she had overestimated her strength when she thought she could reconcile herself to the possibility that in future perhaps only the spiritual and tender component of our relationship would be maintained; she had decided she would rather renounce everything and make a clean sweep of things. Evidently this plan had been brewing in her for a long time, until it was voiced the day before yesterday. The next result was a