Paid some (card) calls. Strange mood in spite of all my activity—it finds, expression in my taking up my old favorite Eugenie de Guerin again. One could scarcely imagine a calling as different from mine as hers, and yet no one lies as close to my heart as this Breton girl, and in this book I love the French very much. —
In the afternoon we drive out to the theater; in the evening Frl. Oppenheimer from Frankfurt, who will probably sing Erda; with Frau Grün she sings the duet from ‘Lohengrin (Ortrud and Elsa). R. has a lot of things to point out, but he is satisfied with their eagerness to learn.