(urth) Ouen and Dorcas and ??

[Lee Berman]

>David Stockhoff- However, if this were a Gothic mystery, we would assume the father was 
>at least hiding something to protect his son---such as, she killed herself some time during 
>Ouen's first year. Most people raised on such half-truths would not question such a small discrepancy.
 
I can agree with your thinking. Moreover if we parse Ouen's statement more tightly:
 
>Ouen: I never knew her, sieur.  Cas they called her, but she died when I was young.
>in childbirth, my father said.
 
we could infer that Ouen finds the name "Cas" and "died when I was young" to be fact but
"in childbirth" to be in question; that part described as his father's words only.
 
If so, I concur with Ouen that his father, the boat guy on the Lake of Birds, is a deceiver, not
to be believed at face value.
 
>What else could this hide?

What indeed.