"Besides, we may chance to hit upon some other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to Mr.Lestrade.You know me too well to think that I am boasting when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of understanding.

To take the first example to hand, I very clearly perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand side, and yet I question whether Mr.Lestrade would have noted even so self-evident a thing as that." "How on earth--" "My dear fellow, I know you well.

I know the military neatness which characterises you.

You shave every morning, and in this season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated than the other.

I could not imagine a man of your habits looking at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a result.