Nancy resists the urge to throw the chocolate in their faces, and instead, keeps up her miserable charade. She takes the cup, but only holds it.

Norrell doesn't like Redbright, she notes, filing it away for later, when she wasn't trying to get herself out of this mess without revealing anything about herself, her brothers, or Fagin. She shook her head, fast and tight. "I can't, you don't understand!" A few items on shelves begin to shake with the force of her emotions mingling with her magic.

"There's nothing you nor anyone can do to save me, me and the boys. I can't give you what you want." She heaves a terrible sob, pulling her knees up to her chest, any modesty forgotten in the moment. "He's a very bad man, capable of awful things. He'll hurt you, worse than me- he'll make me watch." She turns her green eyes up at Norrell, trying her best to look as pathetic as she could. "You don't deserve what he can do to you."

No, he deserved more.