Monday, 2 May 1881

To the Salon, of course — alone in the morning but running into fellow students; in the afternoon with Papa and Alexis, then the Gavinis, Villevieille, Kireyewsky, etc. etc. Around six o’clock Gabriel comes to see us and we arrange to meet at the Salon tomorrow.

This evening “Le Monde où l’on or where one climbs the ‘Pailleron’¹ at the Comédie-Française. Delightful comedy, and I make a great effect with my neck. All in black, high-necked dress open only in a square just enough to show the collar-bones; my neck appears so white that it is very much ogled through opera glasses.