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But the little house cost about 13,000 with all the trappings. Well,
Pauli[6]
will
give you a very thorough report about this business. We did, of course, keep my
friend informed about everything as concerns our financial situation; and when the
Zurich business stopped she became a bit anxious. She and we then placed great
hopes on the
biography.[7]
When that also fell flat, she became so skittish that we
already began thinking about selling. Then the idea of a guest house occurred to us,
and we asked her if she would have enough patience for this plan. She was content
with that. She really is touchingly kind. So that’s how things now stand. Naturally,
it would be a colossal service to us if we could repay her. She is earning interest off
of her financial collateral and doesn’t need the capital, but she is a little fearful and
is more insistent ever since last year, when we couldn’t even pay the interest. With
the guest house this would have been settled in hardly more than one month, but
we haven’t had anyone yet, you know. We have 3 definite registrations for the
spring. It was a hard blow for us when the two registered ladies did not come, be-
cause we had to purchase quite a lot of things in order to be able to give them a dig-
nified welcome and for that we had to incur even more debts. Then they didn’t
come… Very grim. But it is good that we have those things. For whoever will give
the mortgage on our little house, we must pay interest on it and amortize it as best
as possible; and we can’t do that just from Pauli’s
pension.[8]
It’s already of great
help to us if we don’t have to be in constant fear of losing our home. So, dear Elsa,
if you know anyone who would fit in here, do send [them over] anyway.
Dear Albert, you travel more easily to China and Japan or Argentina than to see
us here. And with us you’d have the quiet for pondering and everything that you
wish. You could put it to the test.
The assessor whom you heard about, dear Elsa, is surely Dr.
Regensburger.[9]
He
visited us with his young wife on the instructions of Priv[y] C[ouncillor] Meyer, in
order to have a look around for his wife. We, all 4 of us, got on so well with one
another that they have visited us frequently since. He is an intelligent, fine person,
and above all, an honorable man, through and through, such integrity as I have rare-
ly ever seen. I [don’t] know his address