The four of us went to the private office yesterday evening and turned on the radio. I was so terribly frightened that someone might hear it that I simply begged Daddy
to come upstairs with me. Mummy understood how I felt and came too. We are very
nervous in other way, too, that the neighbors might hear us or see something going on.
We made curtains straight away on the first day.
There are some large business premises on the right of us, and on the left a furniture workshop; there is no one there after working hours but even so, sounds could travel through the walls. We have forbidden Margo to cough at night, although she has a bad cold, and make her swallow large spoonfuls of codeine