I have not moved it since the day I was married, and it would have taken a file to get it off.

I don't know, anyhow, that I should have cared to part with it; but if I had wanted to I couldn't.

So we just had to leave that detail to take care of itself.

On the other hand, I brought a bit of plaster down and put it where I am wearing one myself at this instant.

You slipped up there, Mr.Holmes, clever as you are; for if you had chanced to take off that plaster you would have found no cut underneath it.
"Well, that was the situation.