"Are you familiar with the play Hamlet? Shakespeare?" Although his tone had the cadence of a question, Sherlock continued without giving Eli a chance to answer. Whether or not she knew the play wasn't important. "I performed it once, Titular role. There is a line, 'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Act one, scene four--no, five."
He took the briefest of pauses, looking squarely at Eli. He felt there wasn't much, if any need to explain the quotation. "I wish I could perform the play over again. I could bring so much more to it now..."