" So I content myself with what can be written and I dream whatever should be dreamed; I have the time and place for it. La Mousse has a little swelling on the teeth and the Abbé a little swelling on the knee, which leave me free in my avenue of trees to do what I please. And what I please means to walk up and down there in the evening until eight o’clock. My son has gone now and that leaves a silence, tranquillity and solitude that I don’t think it is easy to find anywhere else. "

― Marie de Rabutin-Chantal de Sévigné , Selected Letters