And yet I believe that, if the mother has not some ideal, in the name of which she can sacrifice the animal feeling, and if this force finds no employment, she will transfer it to chimerical attempts to physically preserve her child, aided in this task by the doctor, and she will suffer as she does suffer.
"So it was with my wife.

Whether there was one child or five, the feeling remained the same.

In fact, it was a little better when there had been five.

Life was always poisoned with fear for the children, not only from their real or imaginary diseases, but even by their simple presence.

For my part, at least, throughout my conjugal life, all my interests and all my happiness depended upon the health of my children, their condition, their studies.