Your last letter breaks my heart. If you have not yet called it off, then I shall come Monday evening, ten o'clock, Hotel Bellevue, and see on Tuesday what has remained of the Hiller banquet at the Belvedere. It concerns us both and that is enough. It is one thing that dare not be spoiled.
Your
Richard Wagner
Source: The Letters of Richard Wagner to Anton Pusinelli, trans. and ed. Elbert Lenrow (Alfred A. Knopf, 1932), No. 70