They are hers and yours alone.

I have no part nor lot in them, and whether they be dead or living I know well you love them always, and will love them beyond the grave if you may find them there.

Already I grow old, who waited twenty years and more before I was your wife, and I shall give you no other children.

One I gave you, and God took it back lest I should be too happy; yet its name was not on your lips with those strange names.

My dead babe is little to you, husband!' Here she choked, bursting into tears; nor did I think it well to answer her that there was this difference in the matter, that whereas, with the exception of one infant, those sons whom I had lost were almost adolescent, the babe she bore lived but sixty days.
Now when the Queen first put it in my mind to write down the history of my life, I remembered this outbreak of my beloved wife; and seeing that I could write no true tale and leave out of it the story of her who was also my wife, Montezuma's daughter, Otomie, Princess of the Otomie, and of the children that she gave me, I let the matter lie.