"Come sit down, then, and let me have a look how did it happen?" "For once, Watson, you've hit it exactly I believe my arm is broken." Holmes was staring as if he had never seen me before. There's no hunching in your posture as there would likely be if you were suffering from abdominal pain, so I surmise it's the arm." "I can see you're in pain by the tightening of your eyes, and the way you're holding your arm, you've either injured it or you're guarding your belly. "Elementary, Holmes," I replied, unable to resist that small dig though I was already softening in the face of his pain. He didn't have enough sense of humour to be baiting me, I decided for once the shoe truly was on the other foot. "Good evening," I responded, still a little shortly. Sometimes I wondered if he even remembered at times that I was a practicing physician and not a man of leisure.īut as soon as I saw Holmes in the doorway, I realized that it was in that capacity he had come to me this evening. Well, this time I wouldn't, I decided he needn't think his work was so much more important than my own. More likely he expected me to drop everything and join him on one of his cases. For a man who so prided himself on his powers of observation, I thought bitterly, he could be amazingly dense about certain things. I knew better than to think he had come to apologize I doubted he even understood what he had done to offend me - if he even fully realized he had. "Send him in, then," I said a little brusquely.
I nodded, attempting to hide my surprise. A doctor was used to working at all hours, of course, but I had been hoping for a quiet dinner with Mary tonight. It was after office hours when I heard the sound of a cab pulling up outside and mentally sighed.
I hesitated, wanting in spite of everything to drop in on Holmes and hear him tell of his latest case.īut I shook myself and continued on I had no wish to be told once again how singularly stupid and unobservant I was. But I was kept busy enough not to think of it often, save for the one time when my route once more took me past Baker Street.
I did not see Holmes for several days, and felt a twinge of annoyance whenever I thought of our last exchange. I merely nodded, letting myself out without a farewell. "Give her my regards," Holmes said stiffly, apparently affronted that I had taken offense at his words. "Anyway, Mary's expecting me home for supper, so I'd best be off," I concluded. I found myself wondering why I had even bothered to try. Had he truly been glad to see me, or would anyone suitably impressed have done as well? Not that I would have minded once more being impressed if he had not first insisted on my trying my hand. He had seemed glad to see me, but as he immediately inveigled me into displaying my ineptitude at guessing a man's occupation from the cut of his suit, I had wondered if he merely wanted someone to admire his own skill.
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When my professional round had taken me near Baker Street, I had thought I would stop in for a few minutes to see my old friend. "I didn't come here to be insulted, Holmes." I felt my jaw clench tightly as I turned sharply from the window where we had been watching one of the passers-by. Don’t worry if you haven’t read the books as you will see places frequented by Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downie Jr, Christopher Plummer and Jeremy Brett in their screen appearances as the great sleuth."As usual, Watson, you have seen everything and observed nothing." The tour will be a treat for any Holmes fan, as you’ll visit places mentioned in the original stories The Hound of the Baskervilles, A Scandal in Bohemia, The Adventure of the Illustrious Client and many more. Stop at famous hotels, gentlemen’s clubs and even London’s only Sherlock Holmes Pub.
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