He would otherwise have been sure to make several horrible songs about her experiences with the moping Elvira.
Kurt, who was usually cheerful, had been as terribly depressed for the last few days as if he had been carrying a heavy weight around with him all the time.

He had kept something from his mother, and therefore the weight seemed to get heavier and heavier.

It oppressed Kurt more than he could say that he had not immediately confessed his fault.

But how could the mother have believed him when he told her that he had seen a figure which could not possibly be human.

He really felt like a traitor towards his mother.