"I did ask her," Jon said, shrugging a bit. "But I cannot help but think that a man who would abandon his own wife and children to take another to wed, legal or not, isn't the sort of man I want to be like."

He frowned a bit and shook his head. "This isn't a topic for a lady, though, and I apologize. My mother is a good woman. This place is strange and time is fickle - she is younger than I am - but I have gotten to know her as part of my family."