La Dame Aux Camelias

"Whenever a new play was performed, you could be sure of seeing her there with three things which she always had with her and which always occupied the ledge of her box in the stalls: her opera-glasses, a box of sweets and a bunch of camellias. For twenty-five days in every month the camellias were white, and for five they were red." La Dame Aux Camelias, Alexandre Dumas fils