Saturday, 3 May 1879

Messieurs de Morgan and Turquan.
Madame Gavini says that Morgan is of very good family and very rich... they say two hundred thousand francs a year. That is more reliable than Multedo's supposed fortune.
But let us move on. I have finally arranged my studio. I shall describe it all to you at the first opportunity. Tonight I am going to bed — I am exhausted.
Robert-Fleury did not scold me; I am busy being agreeable to all the newcomers, so that I hold the floor rather well. Julian corrected our compositions and I came home with Madame d'Ermont. In the evening I consult my library (composed of more than seven hundred volumes) for the next sketch. I greatly enjoy this — I play at being the serious woman, the scholar, the philosopher, the artist... who knows, perhaps I am all of these... the devil is cunning and the world is strange...