Irene Adler

was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for irene antler all emotions and that one particularly were abhorrent to his cold precise but admirably balanced mind he was i take it the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position he never spoke of the softer passions save with a jibe and a sneer they were admirable things for the observer excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions but for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his.

And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler of dubious and questionable memory.

I had seen little of Holmes lately.

My marriage had drifted us away from each other.

Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid lounging figure of the man, who had been no doubt depicted to him as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe.

Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his gigantic client.

if your majesty would condescend to state your case he remarked i should be better able to advise you the man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in uncontrollable agitation then with a gesture of desperation he tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground you are right he cried i am the king why should i attempt to conceal it "'Why, indeed,' murmured Holmes, "'your majesty had not spoken before I was aware "'that I was addressing Wilhelm Guthrieck, "'Sixman von Ormstein, "'Grand Duke of Kassel-Felstein, "'and hereditary King of Bohemia.' "'But you can understand,' said our strange visitor, "'sitting down once more and passing his hand "'over his high white forehead, "'you can understand that I am not accustomed "'to doing such business in my own person.' yet the matter was so delicate that i could not confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power i have come incognito from prague for the purpose of consulting you then pray consult said holmes shutting his eyes once more the facts are briefly these some five years ago during a lengthy visit to warsaw i made the acquaintance of the well-known adventuress irene adler the name is no doubt familiar to you kindly look her up in my index doctor murmured holmes without opening his eyes For many years he had adopted a system of docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not at once furnish information.

In this case I found her biography sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a staff commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea fishes.

Mm-hmm.

Well, I'm not gonna lie, the way that Andrea, like, ran that man, it does give me a little bit of Irene Adler vibes because, uh, you got the world's greatest detective who doesn't figure out what's happening right under his nose.

Uh-huh.

Well, I mean, considering that scene where it takes Batman, uh, a photo and drawing a smiley face on Jack Napier to figure out, to figure out it's Joker, and it's like, all right, you need to give back your world's greatest detective, like, cup because- I'm just saying, and not to mention, Joker figured out that the, who the Phantasm was, side note, spoilers, for a, what-

The King of Bohemia, read by Nick Richmond.

Irene Adler, read by Sarah Terry.

Godfrey Norton, read by Eden Rayhedrick.

Irene's

I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.

In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.

It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler.

All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise, but admirably balanced mind.

I keep it only to safeguard myself and to preserve a weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might take in the future.

I leave a photograph which he might care to possess and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, very truly yours, Irene Norton.

Nay,

adler what a woman oh what a woman cried the king of bohemia when we had all three read this epistle did i not tell you how quick and resolute she was would she not have made an admirable queen oh it is not a pity that she was not on my level From what I have seen of the lady, she seems indeed to be on a very different level to your majesty,

Nice gentleman.

Uh, Mr. Jeffrey Norton is his name.

Good-looking fellow.

Uh, wouldn't be surprised to see him get spliced.

What's our next move, Holmes?

Let's stroll back to Briony Lodge.

I'm undecided whether to continue my investigation there or to try and find out something about Mr. Jeffrey Norton, the barrister.

If he's just her lawyer and nothing else, it's more than likely that she's entrusted the photograph to his safekeeping.

The King of Bohemia read by Nick Richmond.

Irene Adler read by Sarah Terry.

Godfrey Norton read by Eden Ray Hedrick.

Irene's maid read by Ethel Boose.

I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.

In his eyes, she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.

It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler.

All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise, but admirably balanced mind.

So, yeah, so...

And think of old Irene Adler in Scandal and Bohemia.

He's even-handed with these people, really.

Whatever they do, he doesn't judge them.