- Albert Shlessinger: Why, you're a common burgler!
- Sherlock Holmes: And my friend is a dangerous ruffian. Together we mean to go through your house.
- Sherlock Holmes: Watson! Quick, man! It's life or death - a hundred chances on death and one on life!
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- Dr. Watson: [narration: Holmes is reading a letter from Watson] My dear Holmes, today I walked fourteen miles across rough terrain, and hardly a twinge from either my leg or my shoulder. The landscape is as handsome as it is reported. I still entertain the hope that I can prevail upon you to join me. I appreciate, of course, that the beauties of nature mean little to you, but I believe you would have found some of the guests at my hotel most intriguing.
- Sherlock Holmes: One of the most dangerous classes in the world is the drifting and friendless woman. With no-one to protect and guide her, she is the inevitable inciter of crime in others.