Tuesday, 5 August 1879

Again: promenading, shops, passing before the terrace of the Cercle where twenty to twenty-five connoisseurs sit from four to six. Then the Bois, and in the Bois all one's acquaintances and unknown faces, known ones such as Arnaud etc. etc. Since I no longer go to the studio it seems to me I am in another city. I am at the waters — I am enjoying myself.
At dinner and all evening there is Blanc, who is there to endure the rapid fire of all the nonsense that passes through my head. Only I take good care not to betray Arnaud — I call him Putiphar (because of Joseph) and then Little Lighthouse, because Putiphar is risqué.

Notes

Marie calls Arnaud "Putiphar" (Potiphar, whose wife attempted to seduce the biblical Joseph), then disguises it as "Petit Phare" (Little Lighthouse) because the biblical allusion is too suggestive.