Poznámky
Gioia: Mme Amélie Gioia, the Nice demi-mondaine who had been the Duke of Hamilton's mistress (and later Audiffret's); the new maid shares her first name, Amélie. The asterisk is the printed edition's marker sending the reader to its index of nicknames. ↩
Victor: one of Marie's dogs. ↩
Pincio: another of her dogs, named for the Pincian Hill in Rome. ↩
Chi lo sa?: Italian for "Who knows?" — one of Marie's habitual Italian expressions. ↩
Probably François Blanc (1806–1877), who made his fortune running the casinos of Homburg and then Monte Carlo. ↩