Some thoughts about 'the tramp'

If you watch from the very beginning, the girl whines she was brought up with 'no father' - 'we all has our cross to bear, and mine is, I had no father'. AND - there was chatter about the girl's father was 'FOREIGN' - possibly a Traveller or a Gypsy. The mother was on the sidelines of the tightknit Wales community, not one of them so much - she was an ignorant servant woman.... and was loved and left by some furriner, whose bad blood shows up in the daughter that she emphasizes she does NOT LIKE. I am not being judgemental at all, before there was birth control, poor women got knocked up and if they were extremely lucky, they would be kept on as servants. So there is some precedent...

Now. This girl is bad blood, and is very opportunistic. She is not stupid, she knows she is the illegitimate daughter of a dopey servant woman, but she wants more. She gets deliberately pregnant by the genius to GET BACK at the school teacher who didn't put up with her Drama Queen nonsense - and she also knows also blackmail is going to work just fine.

So, slutty girl is off to a life of ill repute and gives away her 'little stranger' to marry a rich-ish guy. I foresee a career as a dance hall girl, a dancer/singer, some girl in the 'show biz' of the time (and there were HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS of them).

Hey! There have been 'bad' women, and 'aggressive' women, dumb but focussed. since the beginning of time.

I do wonder how The Little Stranger Bette has been saddled with is going to make out in life. Possibly VERY well.