CHAPTER LI
COLD RECEPTION—ENEMIES ALL AROUND
Frederick Augustus gives his views on adultery—Doesn't care personally, but "the King knows"—"Thank God, the King is ill"—I am deprived of my children—Have I got the moral strength to defy my enemies?
Pillnitz, May 20, 1901.
I am undone. That malicious Tisch woman holds me in the hollow of her hand.
I dropped into a sea of ice when I set foot in the castle. Long faces, suspicious looks, frigidity everywhere. The King treats me like a criminal. I wonder the guards don't refuse their spiel at my coming and going.
Pillnitz, May 21, 1901.
Frederick Augustus arrived. He doesn't say for how long, and acts the icicle in the presence of others. At night he seeks his "rights," seeks them brutally.
This afternoon he said to me: