The American Betrayal Quotes

Betrayal comes in many forms. Weirdly enough, Mrs. Bread is most worried about gossiping behind her employers' back, not potentially blackmailing them. Hey: the propriety of 19th Century Europe was a walled garden. And no one knew that better than Henry James.

The business of betrayal doesn't come naturally to Newman. He's kind of a limp noodle…if limp noodles also had a seriously ferocious sense of ambition.

Newman has to make any threat of betrayal seem convincing enough that the Bellegardes listen to him. That's not an easy task, since the Bellegardes are intimidated like a fox.