Tuesday, August 8:
But R. is very run down again today, on account of an error in his diet. In the morning I receive Herr Feustel and Herr Voltz, who, in order to extricate himself from the tangled situation, proposes ceding his interest in the business to R. For the time being I say nothing to R. about this visit, since he is very run down and has his second meal by himself; he does not follow the children and me to the theater until the middle of the first act and by the middle of the second act has already left. Late in the evening, when I tell him about the performance, he is still very irritable.