I just added something about that to my last comment. Yes, possibly. It may be that Byron agreed to take on the child later so long as the child was born and brought along discreetly. I note that Claire did not come clean about Alba even after she was born, but enacted some charade at Marlow whereby she purported to be looking after it for someone else. Byron would accept the child so long as it had no entanglement with Chaire. My favourite childhood romantic turns out to be quite a b*****d.