grapes 2.50 guilders a pound, gooseberries 70 cents a pound, one peach 50 cents, melons 75 cents a pound.
No wonder the papers write every evening in big, fat letters: “Keep Prices Down!”
MONDAY, JULY 26, 1943
Dear Kitty, Yesterday was a very tumultuous day, and we're still all wound up.
Actually, you may wonder if there's ever a day that passes without some kind of excitement.
The first warning siren went off in the morning while we were at breakfast, but we paid no attention,
because it only meant that the planes were crossing the coast.
I had a terrible headache, so I lay down for an hour after breakfast and then went to the office at around two.
At two-thirty Margot had finished her office work and was gathering her things together when the sirens began.
So she and I trooped back upstairs. None too soon, it seems,
for less than five minutes later the guns were booming so loudly that we stood in the hall.
The house shook and the bombs kept falling. I was clutching my “escape bag,”
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