[Despite the please, it's more a command than anything else. He pauses then, considering something else.]
If you wouldn't mind telling me just one more thing... How was it, exactly, that your flatmate came to notice it? [He had thought surely some romantic liaison would spot it first, if not John himself, but Sherlock Holmes? This could be the cause of some even greater worry.]
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[Despite the please, it's more a command than anything else. He pauses then, considering something else.]
If you wouldn't mind telling me just one more thing... How was it, exactly, that your flatmate came to notice it? [He had thought surely some romantic liaison would spot it first, if not John himself, but Sherlock Holmes? This could be the cause of some even greater worry.]