" I’ll have you know there is adventure and then there is crime. And crime, such as you are suggesting, my pretty little filching mort, will see you standing in the Old Bailey being consigned to a hanging.” “Then I daresay it would be best if we weren’t caught.” “Not caught!” He shook his head. “At least now I know where you live.” “However do you know that?” “Because I’m quite certain the place you escaped from earlier was Bedlam.” “Bedlam, indeed,” she sniffed. “Whyever would you want to break into someone’s house?” She shrugged. “I just merely want to try. It can’t be that difficult. Thieves do it all the time.” “And are hung all the time. "
― Elizabeth Boyle , Mad About the Major (Bachelor Chronicles, #8.5)