Re: 706, 11:50 pm.
"The situation--you will excuse my obtuse approach, I hope, given the circumstances, Mr. Holmes--the situation is indeed unpleasant. I cannot tell you how unpleasant." She paused, licked her lips in a manner most unseemly for a woman at tea, then looked up at him with a certain amount of intimacy as she lowered her voice. "You detect the certain amount of... feeling between... us?" She actually blushed. "That did not exist before, I mean. Quite."