The Sign of Four1987

Dr. John Watson:
What a very attractive woman!

Sherlock Holmes:
It is of the first importance not to allow your judgement to be biased by personal qualities. A client to me is a mere unit, a factor of the problem.

Dr. John Watson:
Holmes, you are an automaton, a calculating machine; there is something positively inhuman in you at times.

Sherlock Holmes:
I assure you the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.

Dr. John Watson:
However, in this case...

Sherlock Holmes:
Ah. I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.