You cannot begin a conversation but little Pierre comes running in with an anxious air to ask if he may eat an apple, or what jacket he shall put on, or else it is the servant who enters with a screaming baby.
"Regular, steady family life does not exist.

Where you live, and consequently what you do, depends upon the health of the little ones, the health of the little ones depends upon nobody, and, thanks to the doctors, who pretend to aid health, your entire life is disturbed.

It is a perpetual peril.

Scarcely do we believe ourselves out of it when a new danger comes: more attempts to save.

Always the situation of sailors on a foundering vessel.