Vienna, Friday
August 14, 1885

My precious little woman

I went to Baden yesterday afternoon and didn't get back till this morning. Astonishing how much better he [Schonberg] looks; most of the symptoms have subsided; I don't think the end will come for some time. He is so satisfied with the way his brother and sister-in-law are looking after him that I too find myself reconciled to this couple. In conversation the brother tried to clear himself of all responsibility for the neglect, and in fact it turns out that it was mainly because of Schonberg's irritability while here, his permanent secretiveness and his protestations about his improving health while in England, that the family didn't make it their business to look after his health before. We went to the theater in