For some years the lawyer had been taking his holidays at the exclusive hide-away country hotel and carrying on an affair with the owner’s daughter. However, on returning one year he discovered his mistress had given birth to twin boys. “Why on earth didn’t you tell me?” said the astonished lawyer.
“You know I would have married you and provided for the birth.”
She replied, “That may be so. But when I told my parents I was pregnant, we talked over all the options and decided it was far better to have a couple of ваsтаrds in the family than a lawyer.