User blog comment:Opark 77/Season 2 reviews: episode 4 "Garden of Bones"/@comment-209.221.3.150-20120426215929/@comment-210608-20120426223609

Thanks for reading.

I think its ambiguous at this point. In the book Davos is the point of view character so we don't even know thay they have sex, it is just hinted at. In the TV series I felt pretty sure that he was genuinely expecting a son when she seduced him but I can accept that its subjective. At the clifftop parley in this episode he still seems to be expecting a true heir because he tells Renly that he will make him his heir until he has a son if he surrenders.

By the time he tasks Davos with smuggling Melisandre ashore something seems to have changed; he knows enough to know that he is never going to want to speak of it afterwards. I imagined she had a frank conversation with him about what she was capable of in the interim.