Of course, of course, they had lost their son Guido, their first child, who died in 1914, aged only six, after a lightning attack of American-type infantile paralysis, against which even Dr. Corcos could do nothing; and what a terrible blow this must have been to them:
oso kolpe gogorra izango zen haientzat beren lehen semea, Guido, galtzea; 1914an hil zen, sei urte besterik ez zituela, amerikar tankerako haur-perlesia tupusteko batek jota, Corcosek berak ere ezin izan zuelarik ezer egin.