" Mr. Edwards.” The fellow rose. “Jackson Naylor at your service. What a strange hour for you to be attending to bank business. Perhaps you can explain why the false bottom in your desk drawer conceals nearly two thousand pounds in banknotes?”....
Naylor peered upward, at the shadows dancing on the ceiling. “You steal from family, but I am to be hanged, and Elsmore is to bribe the magistrates to see it done—do I have that right?”
“Elsmore will protect the reputation of this bank,” James said, “and if that means spreading a bit of coin around to keep lips buttoned, he’ll see itdone. I know him well, and I know how precarious a bank’s reputation is. You chose the wrong business to rob, Naylor.”
“Except,” a quiet voice said behind James, “he’s not robbing anybody. Why are you here at this late hour, James?”
Elsmore had silently closed the door behind James, though this was not a version of Elsmore James had seen before. "

― Grace Burrowes , Forever and a Duke (Rogues to Riches, #3)