Chapter 1, Chapters 73 - 75 Summary

Chapter 73: Leo Fischel's daughter Gerda. Gerda was introduced in the previous volume. She is a 23-year-old woman. She is the daughter of Klementine and Leo Fischel. She is engaged to be married. There is a certain amount of realistic assessment that she may not heed all that some of her elders might have to say. Ulrich has a meeting with Klementine, who is Gerda's mother. They briefly discuss anitsemitism and two different temperaments are displayed in response to it. Klementine doesn't like it, but her reaction is not drastic in any way. Leo, on the other hand gets passionately worked up over the same issue - he has a more volatile reaction to it. They discuss Hans Sepp, the hopeful candidate for Gerda's husband and Ulrich asks quite directly whether or not this man has much of a future...