Saturday, 2 December 1882

Tony saw the portrait — not yet finished — and did not find it very good. "You see how difficult it is to start again when one has been for some time without working."
In short, they all seem to regard me as a ghost returned from the dead.
There is a friend of Breslau's there, and we spoke of her; she maintains that this fortunate girl does me entirely justice and has never said anything ill of me.