- Mr. Viviani: I assure you it is only through study of the good doctor's masterly exposition of your work that I now have any small capacity to reason.
- Sherlock Holmes: Really. You amaze me. Watson, are you taking notes?
- Sherlock Holmes: [rousing a sleeping Watson before dawn] Come, Watson. Come. The game is afoot.
- [exits and Watson lays back down]
- Sherlock Holmes: [reopening the door] Get your clothes and come.
- Sherlock Holmes: I must admit, Watson, you do have some power of selection.
- Dr. Watson: Thank you, Holmes.
- Sherlock Holmes: Which atones for much of which I deplore about your narratives. Your fatal habit of looking at everything from the point of view of a story instead of as a scientific exercise has ruined what might have been an instructive and even classical series of demonstrations.
- Dr. Watson: Why do you not write them yourself?
- Sherlock Holmes: I will, my dear Watson, I will. In my declining years.
- [last lines]
- Sherlock Holmes: It's almost as though you disapproved of the happiness we have fostered today.
- Dr. Watson: Oh, no. I approve of that; of course I do. I am uneasy that you took upon yourself the duties of advocate *and* judge.
- Sherlock Holmes: You are too bound by forms, Watson!
- Dr. Watson: Forms are society.
- Sherlock Holmes: Hmph.
- Dr. Watson: Manners maketh man.
- Sherlock Holmes: Hah.
- Dr. Watson: It's just as well you are unique.