He wasn't sure how he was going to react to hearing the news either way. Going completely numb seemed to at least preserve some false dignity here. The color drained from his face. Zacharias barely even heard that she was only three weeks along, which at least meant there was time for decisions to be made.
Decisions that Marietta had at first said she wasn't going to make. Although she later added her willingness to terminate the pregnancy and it was just a lot, almost too much because Zacharias Smith was not a father. Some people could argue that he wasn't even much of a decent human being, which was probably a good basic requirement for being a father less there be a new generation of children just like him.
"No, it's fine." A moment wasn't going to be enough for him to even start to deal with this. It would probably be a few day until he was able to wrap his head around it, not unlike her barb about being pregnant, which he supposed now wasn't so much a barb, but the truth. Yeah, there was definitely nothing fun about this moment even as much as his mother might hate it because right now it his burden to bear. "Is there anything else we need to know right now?"