Hügelhof, Pirchanger 437, Schwaz 27 July Dear Annerl! It’s infinitely lovely and homely here! Everything’s almost exactly as it was, and the rooms still smell so fresh, it’s almost as though you were staying here and that I need only wait for a ‘Yoo-hoo!’ as you come home from a walk in the woods. I can hear all the familiar noises outside: the scythes, the chickens, the farmers’ children. It’s strange not hearing your children running around in the garden! Their shouts . . . . . . how fantastic to think of them all grown up and back at …
Loox used to yap and growl and snap whenever the Herr Baron came, and despite all manner