It could not, surely, be brought against her as an actual crime that she had not answered Mr.Camperdown's letters?
And yet she was not sure.

Her ideas about law and judicial proceedings were very vague.

Of what was wrong and what was right she had a distinct notion.

She knew well enough that she was endeavouring to steal the Eustace diamonds; but she did not in the least know what power there might be in the law to prevent, or to punish her for the intended theft.

She knew well that the thing was not really her own; but there were, as she thought, so many points in her favour, that she felt it to be a cruelty that any one should grudge her the plunder.