Thursday, 8 April 1880

Kiki, twenty francs for a cigarette; Las Cases, twenty francs; Rouzat, ten francs; Plancy, ten francs; Morgan, ten francs; Chaudordy, twenty francs. Mme Gavini came again with Mme Richaud, then other friends. It is quite merry; I am in white, but very few people. Lahovari and Soutzo are stewards. Soutzo spends freely right and left. And for his three hundred francs... I am benevolent — that is to say I treat him like Coco, I treat him badly and am less contemptuous. No matter — these scoundrels, one must drive them like slaves, only then can one live in peace. Wodzinski for dinner, and then Soutzo again.