- Anne begins to despair. Will life ever be normal again? Will the war end? Will they make it until the war ends?
- Anne briefly mentions how much responsibility and tension their protectors carry.
- The plumbing is broken.
- Miep is all stressed because she’s worried that the Secret Annex crew thinks the protectors are anti-Semitic. Mr. Franks is astonished and tries to talk her out of the idea.
- Anne wonders if it would have been better not to go into hiding and just be dead right now instead of suffering so much.