Hilde Bartscher returned to Zurich in autumn 1924 with the consent of her parents, whom she had apparently convinced of her continued innocence. But the object of her attraction seemed to have lost interest in her. Schoeck's thoughts were again with Mary, though his bodily needs were still being satisfied by Angelie and numerous other women—“wie in einem Taubenschlag,” as he boasted to Corrodi. The literal translation thereof is “as in a pigeon loft,” though its meaning in English is conveyed more idiomatically by saying that his bedroom was “like Grand Central station.” Whether or not his lack of interest and his boasting were together intended to prompt Hilde into joining the other pigeons in his loft, she nevertheless remained adamantly un fluttered and untouchable. It was Angelie who was in tow when Schoeck attended a performance of Stravinsky's Concerto for Piano and Winds in Winterthur on 26 November 1924. Angelie years later could still recall fragments of their conversation after the concert. Schoeck remarked to Stravinsky that he found his music “rather cool,” to which Stravinsky replied, with sovereign disregard for the accusative case: “Ich liebe der Frost” — “I love the frost.” Toward the end of the year Schoeck attended a lieder recital that Angelie herself gave in Bishofszell. It was part of a Mörike evening organized by Rüeger, who gave a brief lecture on the same occasion.