In every large household where there are many servants kept one or other of them will be found of sufficiently plastic material to be moulded to the cracksman’s purpose. In nine cases out of ten it is a female domestic who gives her master or mistress away.
Let it not be supposed that this implies a universal alliance on the part of female servants with the burglaring fraternity. What I mean to say is that domestics of the softer s*x are more susceptible to the insidious advances of the young man who has an eye on her master’s property, and in the character of a sweetheart he manages to get surreptitious invitations to little entertainments mayhap, and makes the very best use of his opportunity by surveying the difficulties he will have to encounter when he begins the attack on the strong
