Thanks for the reply. I'm still surprised, though. She had aborted not only his child, but his _son_. Wouldn't he have seen it as (to put it crudely) the female equivalent of a hit?

And doesn't his love for her disappear completely (for the time being, at least) when he finds out? Before she tells him, he is talking in terms of their future relationship together, but afterwards he simply tells her that she will not take his children - she herself has suddenly ceased to matter to him, she's put herself beyond the pale.