Zelda blinked a few times. "Your parents never married?" she asked. "And that's not a source of gossip here? I know it's not terribly unusual for the noble class to take on lovers that aren't their spouses, although everyone's expected to look the other way and be discreet about it, and sometimes there's children involved, born on, as the saying goes, the wrong side of the blanket. But that's only the case for married people. Unwedded people are expected to behave and keep their legs together, to quote my governess."