![]() Up ahead there are hushed suggestions that Miss Smith might be risking the ''worst fate that can befall a woman.'' But help - in the shape of Sherlock Holmes - is on the way. ''But I don't want diamonds!'' protests Miss Smith, who is betrothed. First, Woodley, a red-mustachioed friend of Carruthers, makes coarse advances to her, which is to say he offers to cover her with diamonds, asks her to marry him and blows smoke in her face. Misfortune after misfortune falls on the head of poor Miss Smith. But Miss Smith has noticed that on a lonely stretch of road between railway station and country home she is being followed, ominously, by a solitary cyclist. In the country, indeed: an isolated country home in Surrey inhabited by Carruthers, a gentleman of means, and his 10-year-old daughter, whose piano teacher Miss Smith has become. ''In the country, I presume, from your complexion,'' says Holmes. This lady is a musician!'' Miss Smith admits she teaches piano. There is a spirituality about the face, however, which the typewriter does not generate. Observe the spatulate finger ends, Watson! Common to both professions. It is obvious, of course, that it is music. ''I nearly fell into the error of supposing that you were typewriting. ![]() ''You will excuse me, I am sure,'' says Holmes. Miss Smith, whose Edwardian demureness is quite captured by Barbara Wilshere, is introduced by a servant at Holmes's rooms as ''well spoken'' and ''a genuine lady.'' Holmes (Jeremy Brett) instantly observes that she is a bicyclist because of the ''slight roughening of the side of the sole caused by the friction of the edge of the pedal.'' He takes the young woman's ungloved hand, then lets it drop. How Miss Smith rises high in this world financially, despite terror, sexual harassment and her own indifference to diamonds - and all without sacrificing either virtue or gentility - is the stuff of Sherlock Holmes addiction of the most persistent order. At least, Violet Smith is inpecunious at the start of ''The Solitary Cyclist,'' tonight's episode of the excellent new Sherlock Holmes series being presented on Channel 13. Wodehouse.Īnd now we have that improvident Holmes again, deploying his formidable criminological talents on behalf of an impecunious if refined young woman who is a piano teacher. ''Not much cash in that lot,'' observed Mr. Here, he must have been paying a good 30 shillings a week for victuals and his ''rooms'' in Baker Street, and look at his clients: stenographers, city clerks, landladies, interpreters, railway porters, and a Cambridge undergraduate. day commentators on Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, was very concerned about the detective's finances. ![]()
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