Thursday, 11 March 1880

A telegram from Russia:
To Mme Romanoff. When Mme Bashkirtseff left, Paul ill. Paul and Constantin Bashkirtseff.
Maman is all in tears; she thinks Paul has tried to kill himself and that his father, frightened, is at his bedside... We telegraph at once to find out, to find out what is wrong with the boy. I know he was ready for anything, and God knows what he may have done, so wounded in his love and publicly humiliated.