Monday, 8 September 1879

This evening Hecht offered us a stage box at the Opera. The premiere of "la Muette" and a very elegant house for September. I am of an astonishing simplicity, I am posing for simplicity and close-fitting styles, especially the bodice because my assets are of an exquisite form and very dainty... I am talking nonsense... it is half past two in the morning... Hecht had sent his stall seat to Joseph and Joseph did not come to the theater. It is as if there were no one because I was thinking of this little fool while dressing. Hecht wants to give us a dinner at his house with radicals. But Gambetta is not in Paris.
Da Costa and Hecht stayed outside and we brought Alexis with us and we stayed together, Dina, he and I until now.
Berthe has left and he replaces her for us but as his name begins with an A he amuses me. His beard grows like Arnaud's.