The Private Wife of Sherlock Holmes (Irene Adler And Sherlock Holmes Novella)
“Any refined eye would avert itself from him, which was the idea.
“Your unexpected visit has caught me in dishabille, madam,” Sherlock Holmes told me dryly in massive understatement. “Watson, would you be so good as to entertain the lady whilst I reassemble myself? There’s a good fellow.”
He ducked back into what I could glimpse of the chamber. I was pleased to spy a gramophone atop a table on the far wall.
“Do sit down, Dr. Watson,” I urged my speechless companion, delicately exhaling a veil of... smoke. “It will take a few minutes to erase so much studied degradation. The picture of Dorian Gray was not painted in a day.”
“I will not sit in the presence of a . . . lady,” he said stiffly.
I smiled and arranged myself in the velvet armchair.
A London June in 1894 was a thing of balmy weather for the English and a joy to revisit, although not as delicate and decorative as in my base of operations, Paris. I was dressed as a lady of the middling classes in anticipation of the role I’d play in Sherlock Holmes’ forthcoming case .MoreLess
“Your unexpected visit has caught me in dishabille, madam,” Sherlock Holmes told me dryly in massive understatement. “Watson, would you be so good as to entertain the lady whilst I reassemble myself? There’s a good fellow.”
He ducked back into what I could glimpse of the chamber. I was pleased to spy a gramophone atop a table on the far wall.
“Do sit down, Dr. Watson,” I urged my speechless companion, delicately exhaling a veil of... smoke. “It will take a few minutes to erase so much studied degradation. The picture of Dorian Gray was not painted in a day.”
“I will not sit in the presence of a . . . lady,” he said stiffly.
I smiled and arranged myself in the velvet armchair.
A London June in 1894 was a thing of balmy weather for the English and a joy to revisit, although not as delicate and decorative as in my base of operations, Paris. I was dressed as a lady of the middling classes in anticipation of the role I’d play in Sherlock Holmes’ forthcoming case .MoreLess
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