… I don't know how you feel. But I still find it fearfully hard to cope with people I do not like or who are not sympathetic. With the others all goes well. But living here with all kinds, I am simply appalled at my helplessness when I want to get rid of someone or to extricate myself from a conversation, even. But I have learnt how to do it. I have learnt that the only way is to court it, not to avoid it—to face it. Terribly difficult for me in practice. But until I really do master this I cannot get anywhere. There always comes the moment when I am uncovered, so zu sagen, and the other man gets in his knock-out blow.