Tuesday, 26 February 1884

Once again Claire keeps me from working the whole afternoon... It is horrible — but I try to be pleasant, for after all it is Shrove Tuesday; she came to spend a few hours here moved by a feeling of friendship... And it is dreadful all the same.
She informs me that tomorrow the Baronne de Latapie, their old relation, will pay a visit to the studio.
I have never had such a perfect occasion to use the word tuile. And the aptness of this expression strikes me for the first time. If I did not know it, I would have invented it.
I was all set to do good work tomorrow — all manner of artistic plans.
Ah! Wretchedness.