"I'd be more worried iffin he took after his own pa," she said honestly. "Despite whate'er I might have said in me anger, mum, we're more well-adjusted than some families and I'd rather me boy learn from ye and pa than that... bloody, no good wretch of a man. Imagine! Threatenin' me wit' the law. He didn't want anythin' to do with Jacob until he saw him months after he was born! I will not let him use me boy as a pawn in his disgustin' game."