Norrell is probably the most useless man with any sort of power that Nancy has ever seen. But that's only a half-formed thought because Childermass takes up the rest of her thought process.

"I can't-" she insists, hiding her eyes behind her hands until she has worked herself up enough to actually summon tears. "I told you- I can't say anything." she leans away from Childermass as he bares down on her. "please don't ask me." she looks from one man to the other as the false tears run down her cheeks, smearing her makeup.