Tuesday, March 9:
Arrival of the author’s copies of the pamphlet on the Jews; also of the Gallery of Famous Germans, which Breitkopf & Härtel have presented to R. R. at his work. The weather is fine.
After lunch a walk with Loldi; since she will never leave my side, I make her a little speech. In the evening, when going to bed, she says, “Everything pleases me about you,” meaning by that to assure me that she will do all I tell her.
Since R. is still very much set against dictating, he reads me Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost. R. is very concerned for me, and I have to tell him how much worse other women in my condition frequently fare, in order to calm him down.
In the night I wake up thinking of the children. Shall I be able to make their lot a little bearable?