All that David now told her of the vicissitudes of his plans, and Nahoum's sympathy and help, only deepened this conviction.

She could well believe that Nahoum gave David money from his own pocket, which he replaced by extortion from other sources, while gaining credit with David for co-operation.
Armenian Christian Nahoum might be, but he was ranged with the East against the West, with the reactionary and corrupt against advance, against civilisation and freedom and equality.

Nahoum's Christianity was permeated with Orientalism, the Christian belief obscured by the theism of the Muslim.

David was in a deadlier struggle than he knew.

Yet it could serve no good end to attempt to warn him now.