Come at once if convenient- if inconvenient come all the same. - S. H. - Arthur Conan Doyle

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.

"Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' — Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet"."

As he stood by the desolate fire, he felt that the only one thing which could assuage his grief would be thorough and complete retribution, brought by his own hand upon his enemies.