Vienna, October 12, 1913
IX., Berggasse 19

Dear friend,

I almost had the desire to do with you what other respectable people are accustomed to doing, i.e., after their anxiety has turned out to be unfounded, to get angry about the fact that one has made them anxious. But the matter has still not been completely clarified; the tone of your letter is still somewhat dry, the report about the motives for your long silence still not quite exhaustive. Is Rank in fact right when he recently admitted to me that he feared he put you in a bad mood with a certain suggestion