If it had been a Bertillon camera, or even a finger-print outfit, Annie Grayson would probably have fought like a tigress.

But this thing was a new one.

She had a peculiar spirit of bravado.
"Such terms as kleptomania," went on Constance, "are often regarded as excuses framed up by the experts to cover up plain ordinary stealing.
But did you wiseacres of crime ever stop to think that perhaps they do actually exist?
"There are many things that distinguish such a woman as I have described to you from a common thief.

There is the insane desire to steal--merely for stealing's sake--a morbid craving.

Of course in a sense it is stealing.