 That same year, Wagner began an affair with Anna Friedericke Schlecht, the daughter of a local innkeeper.He hated the Schlecht family, thinking that his future father-in-law despised him, and tried to avoid marrying Anna, but marriage became a foregone conclusion when she became pregnant by him and gave birth to a daughter, Klara, in the spring of 1902.In December 1902, Wagner's mother, to whom he felt deeply attached, died.