Thursday, 30 January 1873

Maman and Dina are at a morning concert at the Hôtel Chauvain, for the benefit of a poor Russian. I saw Gioia in a closed carriage with a man — and it was not the Duke...
The other one continues to hover around me. I thank him, because he is teaching me the art of making oneself interesting and of making oneself loved despite oneself — if it is not love, it is at least making oneself interesting out of spite.