He jumped away when he saw Henrietta, as if reading was some illicit act.

Usually he spared no second thought for his customers and their illicit acts.

Several customers across the major banks have fallen victims to his illicit acts, Ramovha said.

Hamilton was obliged to confess his illicit acts while his wife, formerly Miss Elizabeth Schuyler, was living.

"Mademoiselle, I had not suspected your presence," he said, and he seemed extraordinarily ill-at-ease, a man startled, as if caught in an illicit act.