John Watson does not resemble a hedgehog. (what_son) wrote in valarlogs,
Re: John Watson - Irene Adler
The proper joke was probably 'it can't be that important, they're dead already'. But sometimes you just didn't make jokes like that, particularly to strangers. Serious looking strangers.
John only rose his eyebrows, offered a vague sort of smile and curled his fingers more efficiently around his cup of coffee. "Uhm? I think I know him. He's more a third-floor if everyone else is lucky sort of guy?" Sometimes people needed to do more paperwork and less doctoring.