Thursday, 13 May 1880

Pelikan's daughter, Mademoiselle Pelikan, has arrived with Mme Cross, whose son married Zoe Pelikan, whom I knew in Nice. These ladies dine with us, and I am in extreme embarrassment — I have such buzzing in my ears that I must make the greatest efforts so that no one notices anything.
Ah! It is horrible. With Soutzo it is all right, because he is close enough, and besides, when I wish I can tell him he bores me. The Gavinis speak loudly. At the atelier they laugh and tell me I am deaf; I seem preoccupied, and I joke about it.
But it is horrible.
Soutzo has truly accustomed me to him. I speak of him without anger and see him with pleasure. He has imposed himself.