Seldom in life has need so oppressed me, seldom have I felt a greater helplessness, a greater dependence.
I had filled up the savings box with toy money—no one made any enquiries.
But that as well could be discovered any day. I was even more afraid of mother than of Kromer’s harsh whistle,
especially when she stepped up to me softly—was she not going to ask me about the money box?
As I presented myself to my evil genius several times without money he began to torment and to make use of me after a different fashion.
I had to work for him. He had to see to various things for his father.
I did that for him or he made me do something more difficult,
hop on one leg for ten minutes, or fasten a scrap of paper on to the coat of a passer-by.
Many nights these torments realized themselves in my dreams, and I wept and broke out in a cold sweat in my nightmare.
For a time I was ill. I often vomited and felt cold, but at night I lay in a fever, bathed in perspiration.
Mother felt that something was wrong and displayed much sympathy on my behalf, but this tortured me because I could not respond by confiding in her.
One evening, after I had already gone to bed, she brought me a piece of chocolate.
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