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was grinding along toward union of the body if not of the spirit - since of the latter there could hardly have been any question under the supervision of Frau Tege. Visits took place in the kitchen ^after supper and Rosel seemed gay and frolicsome as she poured the beer for her uncouth suitor; They lingered endlessly at the door for the good-night kiss as he took his leave, but the confidence of the dark bedroom and the feather puff were tearful. "I wouldn't mind ^getting married so much - I know I have to marry - if only I didn't have to have a child right off!" she wailed.

Anna, the older daughter, was delicate in tastes as well as in health, and nobody in Seehausen crossed out: could had been able to imagine how she would find a husband of suitable refinement. But one day, from way off near the Polish frontier came Willy, and he and Anna were married in due course. Willy was, in fact, neat and pleasant. He rode off every morning ^on his motor bike to his job in Murnau and sometimes, in the evening