Faust: I will agree that she could be British and that she sold the German's out for personal gain and they found out about it. But, I think it highly likely that she is Austrian, as does Silver, or German, and that she was sent to British schools to get rid of her. Remember her mother's opinion of her. She may not have been abandoned in England so much as cut off from mainland Europe by world ( political and military ) events . There's no doubt in my mind that she was a spy for the British and that her motives were far from patriotic.

Carla :And I think Liz raises a rather interesting point: if she passed herself as german, they would've felt betrayed anyway.

Faust: What makes you think so? If they thought she was German, they would consider her a traitor.

Carla: Given that the germans lost WWI, I think that even if they recognized that Marguerite was a soldier to her country, they would still be mad.

Faust: Why should they be? She was a patriot exposing herself to considerable danger to serve her country.

Carla: I tend to think Marguerite is not much of a patriot, and her lack of interest in the English affairs could be a sympthtom of that.

Faust: Agreed.

Carla: Her being a spy for England may just be an act of convenience (which is her usual motivation) given the time she lived in.

Faust: I think the British forced her to comply, or she had to spy to save her fortune, or both.

Carla: She is a character that cares about herself above anything else (at least that was the way in her early days), so it makes sense that she bacame a spy because she knew she had the abilities for it and because it suit her at the time.

Faust: She is not self - centered because she was spoiled. She is that way because she had to survive her parent's, at least her mother's abuse. She will act in her own interests at all costs because that is all she knows how to do. If she became a spy it was because the British insisted or her fortune depended on it.
Carla: As Steve said, it makes sense that she align herself with the winning side, but maybe she thought for whatever reason from the beginning that Germany would lose.

Faust: That's a gamble, but a possiblity.

Steve Faust