Unlikely to Call
Feb. 7th, 2010 03:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rabidsamfanBreakfast did help, although my bruises were stiff and I had not yet accrued enough sleep. Lestrade and I drank coffee, and Mary drank tea, as we considered our meager options.
"Perhaps he'll send word to you," Lestrade said.
"I doubt it," I said wryly. I knew Holmes better than to hope for that.
After the business with Culverton Smith, I had attempted to extract a promise from Holmes not to worry me unnecessarily, without success. He simply did not believe that the rest of the world could not read my features with the same ease as he did himself.
"Perhaps he'll send word to you," Lestrade said.
"I doubt it," I said wryly. I knew Holmes better than to hope for that.
After the business with Culverton Smith, I had attempted to extract a promise from Holmes not to worry me unnecessarily, without success. He simply did not believe that the rest of the world could not read my features with the same ease as he did himself.
