"Snake -?" She had known nothing about that, but it didn't surprise her that Pearl had been whoring around the Whitby slums before. What else could be expected of a whore's daughter? "No, some railway porter who assaulted her at the station." She sniffed and dabbed her eyes. "I knew your father never loved you, but I didn't think he'd be this cruel. Magnus's death must have been that last push into insanity."