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Holmes: [talking about women] Take my fiancée, for instance.
Ilse von Hoffmanstal, aka Gabrielle Valladon: Your... fiancée?
Holmes: Mmmm, she was the daughter of my violin teacher. We were engaged to be married, the invitations were out, I was being fitted for a tailcoat, and 24 hours before the wedding, she died of influenza. It just proves my contention that women are unreliable and not to be trusted.
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Holmes: We all have occasional failures. Fortunately Dr. Watson never writes about mine.
Frank Thornton
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