Tuesday, 31 December 1878

The maneuvers my father employs to take Paul away — whom I wish to keep until the end of January — are beyond description.
Coming home from the studio I fetched de Daillens to welcome the new year together. My family was at the theater. We told fortunes, then had champagne and tea.
I have bought a pair of suspenders and a two-penny cigar to send to Mme P. de Cassagnac. This little infamy will only poison things further.
The defamation suit has been judged — naturally the five or six newspapers that spread and commented on the story were condemned, but what a scandal!
He is not my ideal — I only thought I could, that I was going to love him: that is all.