The birth takes place in secret, and the mother is for four-and-twenty hours in such a delirious state that at the moment of killing the child she is simply not responsible for her actions.

分娩是秘密进行的，母亲有四个小时和二十个小时处于如此神志不清的状态，以至于在杀死孩子的那一刻，她根本不应该为自己的行为负责。