46167    'Thick!

46168    It is intolerable.'

46169    'Open the window, then!

46170    You have been at your club all day, I perceive.'

46171    'My dear Holmes!'

46172    'Am I right?'

46173    'Certainly, but how-?'

46174    He laughed at my bewildered expression.

46175    'There is a delightful freshness about you, Watson, which makes it a pleasure to exercise any small powers which I possess at your expense.

46176    A gentleman goes forth on a showery and miry day.

46177    He returns immaculate in the evening with the gloss still on his hat and his boots.

46178    He has been a fixture therefore all day.

46179    He is not a man with intimate friends.

46180    Where, then, could he have been?

46181    Is it not obvious?'