 Cornelia Otis Skinner wrote that one of La Païva's conquests was Adolphe Gaiffe, a banker of whom she demanded twenty banknotes of one thousand francs each -- which, she stipulated, he must burn one by one during a scheduled 30 minutes of lovemaking.The banker decided to substitute counterfeit banknotes.Even so, the sight of their incineration was so unnerving that he could not accomplish his part of the tryst.