So passed the whole winter. It was not long before I was severely reprimanded by the faculty and threatened with expulsion. It could not last much longer. Well it made no difference to me.

I had a special grudge against Max Demian, whom I had not seen for the whole of this period. In my first term at St. ⸻ I had written to him twice, but had received no reply; for that reason I had not paid him a visit in the holidays.