"Tuesday evening" First day in Paris. "I arrived at the Embassy about 10.30, after walking about the streets some time in the glorious morning sunshine, and listening to the melancholy street-cries of people with artichokes or fruit or other things to sell...." Impressionistic account of Ambassador's room! Was handed letter from Alys and one from John Morley [about secretaryship?]. Enclosed but return. [Not present]. Phipps, Harding and Dodgson. "Dodgson instructed me in the art of reading the French papers and marking passages of importance to be cut out and sent to the F.O.; also in the official cipher, concerning which, as I am writing to a foreigner, I had better not say another word!" At lunch, "tasted alcohol (in the shape of a beer) for the first time since the Society's dinner in June 1892." No one at Embassy offensive (yet). Kind of John Morley to offer, but must of course refuse it. Alys's theories about married life, "Nothing is more youthful than crude dogmas as to conduct...." "Complete self-renunciation is always wrong: one must assert oneself enough to do one's work and to get (if possible) a modicum of happiness out of life—". His ambition increases, as she leads him to believe in himself. Love of man and woman can be religious. "I am a theorist, and keep my unselfishness largely for theory." Anniversary of coming to Friday's Hill.