"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Can you remember any other little things about Mr.Hosmer Angel ?" "He was a very shy man, Mr.Holmes.He would rather walk with me in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to be conspicuous.

Very retiring and gentlemanly he was.

Even his voice was gentle.

He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech.

He was always well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." "Well, and what happened when Mr.Windibank, your stepfather, returned to France ?" "Mr.Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we should marry before father came back.