Poznámky
Landau: a four-wheeled carriage whose folding hood opens in two halves. Marie's «blue box» is the family landau, set against Gioia's splendid carriage. ↩
Giroflé: Olga Sapogenikoff, nicknamed after one of the twin sisters of Lecocq's operetta Giroflé-Girofla (1874), as Audiffret is Girofla. ↩
Lord Augustus Loftus (1817–1904), British ambassador at St Petersburg (1871–79), earlier at Berlin; with his family he is the Bashkirtseffs' English neighbour at no. 55 (12 October), whom Marie longs to meet. ↩
Bibi: here apparently Lord Loftus. The word, popular French for «me» (c'est pour bibi), soon becomes Marie's name for almost everyone, herself included (see 19 October). ↩