Hello, apparently we are cousins. I've just decided that Emrys very much bought into the story that she was gruesomely murdered in a sordid affair because it leads well to this little tidbit I already had in his history:

He is quite convinced that his mother's death in 1880 is a murder, though he has no proof of this, nor any clear ideas about who might have killed her or for what purpose. His growing understanding of the dynamics of his older brother's family, however, just leads him to believe that house is the sort of place one might be murdered in, so it seems perfectly reasonable to conclude this has been his mother's fate. He makes a point of visiting less frequently.

So anyway he'll be a little disappointed to hear that she's alive. Nothing personal.

I have various society types that might have opinions when it happens but I think that's it for now.