A thief works for the benefit he may derive from objects stolen after he gets them.

Here is a girl who apparently has no further use for an article after she gets it, who forgets, perhaps hates it." "Oh, yes," remarked Drummond; "but why are they all so careful not to get caught?
Every one is responsible who knows the nature and consequences of his act." Constance had wheeled about.
"That is not so," she exclaimed.

"Any modern alienist will tell you that.

Sometimes the chief mark of insanity may be knowing the nature and consequences, craftily avoiding detection with an almost superhuman cunning.

No; the test is whether knowing the nature and consequences, a person suffers under such a defect of will that in spite of everything, in the face of everything, that person cannot control that will." As she spoke, she had quickly detached the little instrument and had placed it on Annie Grayson's arm.