honorary professor in the theology faculty of the University of Breslau. His wife Clara, who had been born Countess Kalkreuth, made her home a meeting-place for scholars and artists. A junior doctor named Karl Bonhoeffer turned up there one day, and said later that on seeing Paula von Hase for the first time he knew immediately that he would marry her. It is said of Bonhoeffer’s parents that on their golden wedding anniversary they counted up all the days they had been apart during 50 years of marriage,