It's the Black family. They're all inter-related in ways that are disturbing. :D So they're all cousins and aunts and uncles and dear Merlin, is Alfie glad he's out of all of that! And that would be fine with me! He'd have had no problems giving her that money. He knows he got lucky when he walked out because he had a nice golden nest egg to help him so he always pays that back with any other Blacks who escape!
Oh yes, it would have been the scandal of the month at the time because it happened at a society party where all the purist crowd were. And Alfie totally took all the blame for 'seducing' the other young man involved in order to protect them and because he didn't give a damn if he was disowned. So Fabian could definitely known of him even if they haven't met yet. :D