셜록 홈즈 - 5

  He looked at the King. "You and she ... You loved her, for a while, and then left her. But before you left her, you wrote her some letters perhaps. And now you want to get these back."

  "That's right."

  "Did you marry her?"

  "No."

  "If she asks you for money and shows you the letters, you can say that you didn't wirte them."

  "But Mr Holmes, she also has my photograph."

  "You can say that you didn't give her a photograph."

  "We were both in the photograph."

  "Oh dear. That was a mistake, Your Majesty."

  "I know. I was stupid.... but I was very young!"

 

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