Sunday, 24 April 1881

The Princess and her husband; then Engelhardt, la Cerny. While the Princess takes me for a drive in the Bois, the whole Gavini circle arrives — Odette, Valentine, la Linsingen. The table is laid according to custom and food is offered the whole time.
Then an improvised dinner — the four Karageorgevitchs, du Sautoy, la Bailleul. Everyone is very merry, but I feel as if someone had done something to me; and the good-natured cheerfulness of these young men strikes me as a lack of proper dignity.