Choosing Scenes

Scene 1 - Scandal in Bohemia

• 'His manner was not effusive. It was seldom; but he was glad, I think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular introspective fashion'
• '...He chucked to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands together.'
• '...Lighting a cigarette, and throwing himself down into an armchair.'

Scene 2 - The Man with the Twisted Lip

• 'He flicked his horse with his whip, and we dashed away through the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and mortar, its silence broken only the heavy, regular footfall of policeman...'
• 'A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rift of the clouds.'
• 'Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his breast... lost in thought.'

Scene 3 - The Musgrave Ritual

• 'Brunton, the butler, was in the library. He was sitting, fully dressed, in an easy-chair, with a slip of paper which looked like a map upon his knee, and his forehead sunk forward upon his hand in deep thought.'... 'feeble light.'
• 'We went down a winding stone stair, and my companion, striking a match, lit a large lantern which stood on a barrel in the corner.'
• '...it had been used for the storage of wood, but the billets, which had evidently been littered over the floor, were now piled at the sides, so as to leave a clear space in the middle. In this space lay a large and heavy flagstone with a rusted iron ring in the centre to which a thick shepherd's check muffler was attached.'