Oh, right, I remember that now! Which would be another data point towards meaning something similar to "well-behaved".
*nods* I'll probably find the chance to look up the exact wording again tomorrow. Anyway, teenage Heinrich is bound to use it in the same sense SD did years earlier.
One thing, though, re: SD's reassurances - I'm reminded she also wrote a letter from Hannover during a visit insisting that tiny future Fritz of Wales asks about his "bride" at a point when Wilhelmine is all of six months, sooooo, not necessarily the most accurate reporter on childish utterings. Though I think it's far more likely that any son of FW, growing up near him and drinking the cool aid of "being a soldier is the best job of the universe, and Dad loves soldiers more than anything*", really plays eagerly with mini canons and other soldier stuff than that little Fritz not yet of Wales wants to know all about the baby his weird aunt insists he'll marry one day!
*The letter from Wilhelmine to FW which Oster quotes where she says her governess Leti says she, W, would make a good soldier if women could be one, and she wants to be one so Dad writers her back is also very telling in that regard.
Re: Fritz and fear of gunfire
*nods* I'll probably find the chance to look up the exact wording again tomorrow. Anyway, teenage Heinrich is bound to use it in the same sense SD did years earlier.
One thing, though, re: SD's reassurances - I'm reminded she also wrote a letter from Hannover during a visit insisting that tiny future Fritz of Wales asks about his "bride" at a point when Wilhelmine is all of six months, sooooo, not necessarily the most accurate reporter on childish utterings. Though I think it's far more likely that any son of FW, growing up near him and drinking the cool aid of "being a soldier is the best job of the universe, and Dad loves soldiers more than anything*", really plays eagerly with mini canons and other soldier stuff than that little Fritz not yet of Wales wants to know all about the baby his weird aunt insists he'll marry one day!
*The letter from Wilhelmine to FW which Oster quotes where she says her governess Leti says she, W, would make a good soldier if women could be one, and she wants to be one so Dad writers her back is also very telling in that regard.