Loooove these quotes (&hearts &hearts &hearts). And the second one reminds me of something else in this book I'm curious about: the bit shortly after Wolfe tells Clara that Harlan Scovil has been killed and is about to suggest they "effect a merger," and Archie's narration goes:

Clara Fox had said Muir was a Scotchman, so you couldn't depend on him any more than you could an Englishman, maybe not as much.

Is this another appearance of early-Archie's nationalism/xenophobia, northern-European-flavor? Or does the "so" in the line implicitly belong to Clara, and the opinion about Scotchmen and Englishmen belongs to her? (I admit, the latter doesn't seem likely, somehow...)