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Updated: June 21, 2025
Frau Kläre Güntz, a little lady with a fresh, pretty face, and bright, clever eyes, called these her "at home" days. "You see, Fatty," she said to her husband, "I am trying to follow in the footsteps of Frau Lischke." She lifted her eyebrows and went on, sarcastically: "When you have only been a governess you have to be so very careful. And it's difficult!
On the morning of their march to the practice-camp, Captain von Gropphusen, the head of the second battery, was missing. Major Lischke sent his adjutant to the Gropphusens' villa to ask for news. The lieutenant came back with the answer that Captain von Gropphusen had as usual gone to town the evening before, and had not yet returned. Lischke grumbled.
While you are about it, you might just mention that stuck-up Reimers. This entire winter he has kept away, quite without excuse, from all society. Just tell the colonel that I don't think that proper in a young officer." Lischke was not as a rule shy or in awe of his superior officer, but his wife's commission gave him an ill-defined uneasiness, so that he boggled over his errand.
Sometimes I have my doubts whether I shall ever attain to the standard of Gustava Lischke." She sighed comically and nodded at her husband. He threatened her: "Mind what you are about, Kläre. I will not permit disrespect. Gustava!" he added, chuckling, and turned to Reimers: "We were neighbours as children," he explained, "Gustava and I; but now she denies the acquaintance.
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