wait until we’ve reached a suitable age? Why should we bother? I have taken it upon myself to look after myself; he would never want to cause me sorrow or pain. Why shouldn’t I follow the way my heart leads me, if it makes us both happy? All the same, Kitty, I believe you can sense that I’m in doubt, I think it must be my honesty which rebels against doing anything on the sly! Do you think it’s my duty to tell Daddy what I’m doing? Do you think we should share our secret with a third person? A lot of the beauty would be lost, but would my conscience feel happier? I will discuss it with him.
Oh, yes, there’s still so much I want to talk to him about, for I don’t see the use of only just cuddling each other. To exchange our thoughts, that shows confidence and faith in each other, we would both be sure to profit by it!
Yours, Anne
Tuesday, 18 April, 1944
Dear Kitty, Everything goes well here. Daddy’s just said that he definitely expects largescale operations to take place before the twentieth of May, both in Russia and Italy, and also in the West, I find it more and more difficult to imagine our liberation from here.
Yesterday Peter and I finally got down to our talk, which had already been put off for at least ten days. I explained everything about girls to him and didn’t hesitate to discuss the most intimate things. The evening ended by each giving the other a kiss, just about beside my mouth, it’s really a lovely feeling.
Perhaps I’ll take my diary up there sometime, to go more deeply into things for once. I don’t get any satisfaction out of lying in each other’s arms
