DG: Nice to see you, Ann. You've become quite a popular - and enigmatic - figure since your candid diary was published.
AF: Oh why thank you! Well I always aim to be frank with people....*smiles coyly*
DG: That is the wit we've come to expect, Ann! You were always aiming to keep your mind sharp!
AF: But seriously, I have to tell you, when I was writing to Kitty, my journal, it was a lot easier to be so candid, like the time when Mr. Dussel was frighteningly rude to me, deriding me as selfish and obnoxious. I merely begged him to reconsider the request. In my journal I wrote my true feelings about him. I found him pedantic and small-minded!
DG: This was the issue over you studying at the table in the room that you two shared. Can you tell us what kind of studying you did while you were in hiding?
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