“But look at these lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches,” The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)