How does Paul feel about his mother?

Paul feels little connection to his mother. Dunstan has to talk him into feeling a small sense of duty to her.

He did not want to do it, swore that he owed her nothing and had indeed been driven from home by her bad reputation. I pointed out to him, however, that if this had not been the case, he would not have become the Great Eisengrim but would probably be a Baptist parson in rural Canada.