Status Updates From The Adventure of the Deceas...

Given the accounts by Mr. Dickens concerning London’s police detectives in his Household Words, I found my illusions shattered. The person did not resemble Inspector Fields at all.
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She waved the fan in front of her, mimicking the women I’d seen sitting on park benches or strolling along the road. “I do say, sir, it is rah-ther warm today, wouldn’t you agree?”

She peered at me over the fan’s blades. Little lines crinkled at the corners of her eyes. I wanted to return her smile and merriment but couldn’t. As much as I enjoyed her company, I feared she would never be the lady she wanted to be.

“Mrs. Holmes, you are the one who must understand. I have managed to have my brother removed from that dreadful place to be cleaned and properly dressed before my mother sees him. And to set the inquest a week from today—thanks to our solicitor and my brother’s rank. If at the inquest he is found to have taken his own life, I will make certain our family is not the only one destroyed by scandal.”

"Our father had impressed upon us the need to protect the fairer sex...Now, he was being condemned for having done so. Only social convention kept me from responding... Nothing, however, constrained my mother from doing so.
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"When I learned the drowned man might be Lord Surminster, I had—I can’t call it a premonition as I don’t believe in such things—but an overwhelming fear—as if it were one of you who was injured.... Imagine if it were true.... The news they are about to receive requires both a sympathetic ear and possibly someone who knows how to mix a sedative.”

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