Wednesday, 23 April 1879

Henceforth we shall do composition exercises like those downstairs. We shall be given the same subject as the men below. The ball is on Friday — my dress is already giving me trouble; it seems to me quite dreadful. I am annoyed at having gone to Laferrière's; fortunately there is still time to have it altered, that ghastly creation...
Filippini came to pay a call.