After a lot of ‘phoning with Leon on my part our meeting was off. He had a French friend coming. Really the man is the limit. Let me do all the talking. I was at the (empty space) in the evening. The ship was 30 minutes late and Maria was the latest in coming. Somehow she is smaller than I imagined her to be, last summer she looked taller. May be though that she has been simply putting on weight. As I didn’t see Ervin or Leon with the car I went on with the rest, but when already on the tram we saw Ervin signalling franetically to the greatest delight of Maria, so we got off. There was a little Swedish girl who seemed very friendly. We met the others at the hall of the Hotel and arranged to meet next afternoon.