Agley

The moment I heard his blithe step on the stair, I suspected. When he carolled the news of the empty treasure box, I was certain. So much for my hopes that the revelation of a fortune would divert Miss Morstan from her clear interest in my unfortunate friend! And Watson, my Watson, who went to the Forrester's with the face of a man condemned, has surely met a doom he much prefers. By arranging for privacy, I have allowed them both to express their feelings quite unfettered by the presence of anyone who might object.

I shall never understand love.

Agley

The moment I heard his blithe step on the stair, I suspected. When he carolled the news of the empty treasure box, I was certain. So much for my hopes that the revelation of a fortune would divert Miss Morstan from her clear interest in my unfortunate friend! And Watson, my Watson, who went to the Forrester's with the face of a man condemned, has surely met a doom he much prefers. By arranging for privacy, I have allowed them both to express their feelings quite unfettered by the presence of anyone who might object.

I shall never understand love.

Legacy

For a moment the resemblance was astonishing, and then the boy grinned and fell into rambunctious conversation with his cousins, becoming only one of the many. If his hair was sandier or his eyes a lighter hazel it hardly mattered in that crowd. But I caught Mrs. Forrester's eye and she turned hastily away. It was only later that she admitted to the adoption – a substitute babe for her daughter's lost child, a substitute mother for a babe whose own had gone reluctant to the grave, and whose father could not keep him.

But they kept the name. John Sherlock.

Legacy

For a moment the resemblance was astonishing, and then the boy grinned and fell into rambunctious conversation with his cousins, becoming only one of the many. If his hair was sandier or his eyes a lighter hazel it hardly mattered in that crowd. But I caught Mrs. Forrester's eye and she turned hastily away. It was only later that she admitted to the adoption – a substitute babe for her daughter's lost child, a substitute mother for a babe whose own had gone reluctant to the grave, and whose father could not keep him.

But they kept the name. John Sherlock.