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Vienna, Sunday
July 5, 1885
My sweet darling
Look here, I really don't understand you at all. To be quite so good-natured as to let people get away with everything and to become incapable of taking offense really ceases to be a virtue. I am not prudish and respect you all the more for not being so, either; but how you, after all that has happened in connection with Elise, and above all after the last incident, could think of honoring her with your visit-this is beyond me. I will spare myself the sermon which you can preach to yourself, but it all reminds me so vividly of our bad times, the conditions for which I had thought