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16 May 1891 — Paris | |
Saturday. 16th [May 1891]. I went off with Blanche about 11 to the dressmaker’s. The weather was showery & cold—the 2 day heat melted away. Lunched at the Hotel at 1.30. Then I took a drive with Henry & we left cards on M. Dreyfus & enquired for the Weisweillers & La Croix who were away. While Henry was enquiring the driver of the fiacre turned round & crossly said that he did not like such errands. He knew what we were abt paying visits without asking for people &c & making his horse trot without a rest. I said it was not our fault if we found no one at home– He answered “You do it on purpose—you do not wish to find them at home.” I softened him a little by saying we were foreigners but he spoke of us contemptuously as “vous gens de societé” & said he had known a servant & knew all abt it. I suspect he had been a servant himself. Henry paid him a little extra when we had done with him & I said he need not have been so unhappy to wh he answered “mais je n’aime pas courir tout le temps!” & went his way. Henry & I went to the Hotel Carnavalet—a museum. Mrs Stella Dyer came to see us after 5. Edward & Blanche went out together & went to a séance of the Chambers where they were admitted on presenting a card saying that Edward was the Speakers secy. Louis Du Cane had come over to Paris for 2 days & he & Dacre dined with us at the Hotel & we went to the Hippodrome to see “Neron” & the lions. | |
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