"There are certainly one or two indications upon the stick.

It gives us the basis for several deductions." "Has anything escaped me ?" I asked with some self-importance.

"I trust that there is nothing of consequence which I have overlooked ?" "I am afraid, my dear Watson, that most of your conclusions were erroneous.

When I said that you stimulated me I meant, to be frank, that in noting your fallacies I was occasionally guided towards the truth.

Not that you are entirely wrong in this instance.