Lipton nodded curtly, because thievery and forgery was better than murder, but both spoke of crimes that were more than just making ends meet. Lipton had grown up during the Great Depression; he'd seen people driven into certain crimes out of necessity. That he could understand. Stealing art, and forging paintings, that was foreign to him. "By running here, by staying at New Pemberley, did you put Jane and the kids in danger? Would the man after you have hurt them?"