From 8-year old Hilda’s diary:
Suzanne was here again and stayed for lunch but she left right afterwards. She said that she had to hurry to a rehearsal. She is dancing in the real performance on the ninth of this month, just a week from tonight. The family is going and Grandmother says that if I am good they will take me too. I told Suzanne that she shouldn’t have to hurry away because Aunt Tillie says that she is “fast,” and why was she in such a hurry. Whatever I said, I somehow made Suzanne cry and Grandmother told me to leave the room and told me I was very rude. Why? Was I rude? I just didn’t want her to feel that she had to hurry or be fast and stay here as I love having her here. Grandmother said the “little pitchers have big ears,” and I wasn’t supposed to repeat everything I heard.