Friday, 30 May 1879

To the Salon with the Gavinis, and Madame Gavini declared to my mothers that they absolutely must go out with me and that I must dance, and that at my age it is impossible for me to remain shut up indoors, and that “Monsieur Gavini found it dreadful that that young girl should leave at midnight, like an old person,” etc.

I think it is too late. I have too much disgust, too much apprehension. I am done with such things.