Shame
Simon nodded along knowing full well what his boss was worried about.
It had all started in Griffinwald, back at that inn.
On that day when Louisa and her mother intruded on the scene of his boss aiming to get away, Simon could not believe the scene the older woman had to create just to pass her message across to his boss—her daughter was pregnant or likely so. Simon's compassion had then rested with Louisa who seemed very embarrassed because of what little respect her mother had publicly exposed her affair with his boss, Mr. Blenntmort.
Though the scandal was enough to turn in his ears, Simon was the happiest and most relieved when the elderly woman decreed that Rochester returned with her whore of a daughter, 'the bane of her existence', back to wherever he had come from.
Simon had soon started to ponder upon what kind of a mother that person was. What did she know about his boss' personality that she could willingly throw her daughter off to him?