Monday, November 3:
R. slept better, though still somewhat restlessly. He works on his article and says that he is now coming to the point for which he set out to write it in the first place. The weather is very cold.
At lunch we talk about K.'s Protestant parson, and R. says, “He is unique - he abandons God, turns Christ into a good man, but the church, that remains.” Then R. talks of going to America, to return a rich man; I doubt it, for ships can sink. I say, “Without me you will get no farther than Nürnberg.” Lusch says, “No farther than Creussen.”
Toward evening R. receives Herr Wölfel to talk about converting the annex into a schoolroom for Siegfried and Herr v. St. In the evening we read the conclusion of the lovely story, which remains gripping from all points of view. R. observes that such conditions could not be found in Germany.