Then she is suddenly snatched from this solitude, knowing nothing, loving nothing, desiring everything; an old woman instructs her, a mysterious word is whispered in her ear, and she is thrown into the arms of a stranger.

There you have marriage, that is to say, the civilized family.
"A child is born.

This poor creature has lost her beauty and she has never loved.

The child is brought to her with the words: 'You are a mother.' She replies: 'I am not a mother; take that child to some woman who can nurse it.

I can not.' Her husband tells her that she is right, that her child would be disgusted with her.