sketchbook: the empty house part 2
Several reunions, which do not go precisely to plan.
"I struck against an elderly deformed man, who had been behind me, and I knocked down several books which he was carrying. ... I endeavoured to apologize for the accident, but it was evident that these books which I had so unfortunately maltreated were very precious objects in the eyes of their owner. With a snarl of contempt he turned upon his heel."
He really deserved an enormous wallop from Mrs. Hudson.
“I must impress him, otherwise he will not love me in the way I value myself.” Oh, Holmes.