The Hand Fixation Is Very Telling

In May 1875 he urged his mother again to keep your promise you gave me at Berlin. He has given me alone the soft inside of your hand to kiss but of course you keep this as a secret for yourself. In eight days he wrote we will go to Berlin and then what I dream about we will do in reality when we are alone in your rooms without any witnesses. The correspondence continued in this vein for several months. Rolf's book is the one that really does the best job of highlighting how peculiar this all was.