A clever ruse; Atticus doesn't betray her. When she approaches him with her yimo out, he withdraws the one that the staff at the Dreaming Bridge had provisioned him when he arrived; behind him, his phantom hanger-on makes mockery of the gesture, its fanged teeth bared in a decidedly sinister fashion at Alice over his shoulder. He ignores it.

"I should be grateful," he tells her, providing the alias; it's questionable whether he actually will be--but he seems genuinely intrigued by the prospect of seeing the photographs.