Friday, 13 April 1883

Dinner here. M. and Mme Randouin, Mme Kanchine, the Comte de Salms, Comte Mazewsky, Missak-Effendi, Comte Ducos, Julian, Bojidar. There was a moment of alarm — we were about to be thirteen at table; Alice had to be sent for, and she arrived just as Mazewsky had quietly slipped away to reassure Maman.
He is the most honeyed, the most refined, the most polished of men. A Pole naturalised French, he holds a post at the Crédit Foncier and is rumoured to be the son of M. Frémy. In the evening the Gavinis and Princess Jeanne come.