-: Flashback :-
"Dear father ,
I don't remember when I last wrote to you . To be honest , I don't have a lot of time . I can barely sleep for 4 hours . The work has tripled this year . Sometimes father , I feel horrible . There are just so many bad people in my life right now . They all treat me badly . They call me "dirt" and "peasant scum" . The mistress is the worst kind of human there can ever be in this world . And I always have to serve her . She does it on purpose . I know it . The only relief I have in this palace is Carina .
Carina has been nice to me since the day we first met . She is usually a bit mean and straightforward towards others but not to me . She is my one true friend . But there are problems too . The mistress is always screaming at her , it makes my heart ache . Just because she talks to me , she has to face a lot of nasty comments from her relatives . I don't understand father . What have I done ? Why am I so poorly treated ? I don't even know if I will ever get to send you this letter . But I know this . I will one day make you proud . I will rise . I will be Thomas Ainsworth . Not 'Tommy the peasant's son'.
Your son , Thomas ."
That letter never reached his father . But it did reach Sophia . And when she told him she knew , his blood ran cold . That same thing happened when Nathan now told Thomas that he knew . He knew about Thomas and Carina .