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with a young yellow-starred nurse on the firearms
stations at Szalay utca.

Same night. Sanya [strikethrough] rang me up [/strikethrough] phoned, she wants to
meet me tomorrow, [strikethrough] out of [/strikethrough] away from the premises of Apu
and Manu. Later in the afternoon Lacy came
to [strikethrough] fetch [/strikethrough] get me for dinner, but I could go only later,
as between Elko came for tea. With the Horchlers
I was prepared, they [strikethrough] are going to [/strikethrough] will be discussing the invasion
news, we have not met since the first announcement
to my great astonishment,
nothing of the sort happened. After a good while Gizi
said, she understands, it is impossible to see
clear yet. Nothing else! Of course, I too made only
some casual remarks and dropped the question.
But now, between ourselves, can you understand?
Do they not grasp the meaning of the big event
or is it just painful for them to talk about
it?

Meanwhile drunken G. soldiers are making
a lot of noise[strikethrough] before [/strikethrough] under our windows (it is 11 p.m.)
I can hear with them the voice of the Gerricsis
and Mrs. Lajtai, who all are living in this