Even the process of bringing the illegitimate child to the venue to humiliate her was all written out!
Some smaller websites went even further, concocting colorful stories about her, telling how she seduced her brother-in-law to have an illegitimate child, infuriating her sister and then turning to Robert Thomson. Who knows how many versions of it there were!
If Emma's mother didn't know Thomas's true identity, she too would probably think that a woman who sells herself for money, who is already impure and pregnant before marriage, is highly immoral. In ancient times, she would've been drowned in a cage!
But, she happened to know that their accusations were based on a wrong premise — that the child was not her biological son at all! And why did she sell herself for money? Wasn't it for this little bastard's surgery?