As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, freckled like a plover’s egg, and with the brisk manner of a woman who has had her own way to make in the world.
“You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure,” said she, as my companion rose to greet her, “but I have had a very strange experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be kind enough to tell me what I should do.”
“Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything that I can to serve you.”
I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and his finger-tips together, to listen to her story.
Violet Smith is definitely a New Woman, very independent in her ways, but (unlike Violent Hunter) she actually has a fiance and intends to marry. VH is actually unusual, I think, in that she has no romantic/marital attachments in the story... most women who show up in SH stories do, I think.
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Date: 2010-05-11 08:46 pm (UTC)Violet Smith is definitely a New Woman, very independent in her ways, but (unlike Violent Hunter) she actually has a fiance and intends to marry. VH is actually unusual, I think, in that she has no romantic/marital attachments in the story... most women who show up in SH stories do, I think.