You see I had to paraphrase the whole thing to bring it down to the level of your understanding.
If you'd been in a position to quote a phrase or two, like Herren Morale, for instance, she'd have recognised the system at once, even without the name of Nietzsche." "I couldn't do that, of course." "Now I come to think of it, I don't suppose she'd have owned up to Nietzsche in any case.

She'd have been bound to deny any knowledge of the system.

You see she doesn't know that I've told you who she really is.

She probably distrusts you as a magistrate.

After the brutal way in which Sir Gilbert Hawkesby summed up against her, she would naturally be a bit shy of any one occupying any sort of judicial position.