With moderation and judgment: but look, you did not know
Each other well enough: a common fault to observe
In family life, and one destructive of happiness.
You never let him perceive how dear he was to you,
So he dared not confide in you, when it was his duty:
To have done the one or other had spared you this misfortune.
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Men. ’Tis as you say, I admit; but I was the more to blame.
Chr. True. And to lose a child is deplorable. I had myself
The same misfortune without my fault. A daughter it was,