Miss Braithwaite knew her job and understood Nell's strategy instantly: 
the scenario did not excite the client unless there was a genuine contest of 
wills, and the only way for them to create that contest was to force Napier to 
reveal real classified information. Reveal it he did, bit by bit, under the 
encouragement of Lotus's bamboo and Miss Braithwaite's voice. Most of it had to 
do with troop movements and other minutiae that he probably thought was 
terribly interesting. Nell didn't.