[ She would like to pretend she does not know how such thoughts occur, but she knows how - someone who in time, could not look after themselves, was a burden on their family. To the poorest families, they could never do the back-breaking work required of them, and would become an extra mouth to feed with no money to support them. For this alone, they could never marry, to bring more profits into the family. It was easy to say, but she'd be lying to say she did not know it occurred, and just why it might be considered at all.
But for her own boy, so snatched from her after carrying him, lay in pain to bring him into the world, and in so many months: gone, she could not forgive such a thing.
She murmurs, low, quiet, perhaps she ought to apologise for asking something like that, for bringing up what must be painful, but she does not apologise for much. Rather comes to another thought with it. ] Were you then well loved, or well bred, that you avoided such a fate?
[ Hope said the former, reality said the latter. ]
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But for her own boy, so snatched from her after carrying him, lay in pain to bring him into the world, and in so many months: gone, she could not forgive such a thing.
She murmurs, low, quiet, perhaps she ought to apologise for asking something like that, for bringing up what must be painful, but she does not apologise for much. Rather comes to another thought with it. ] Were you then well loved, or well bred, that you avoided such a fate?
[ Hope said the former, reality said the latter. ]