The Three Gables: The Late Mrs. Watson

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Three Gables
Title: The Late Mrs. Watson
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: Yours faithfully, Mary Maberley… Mary the maid heard the noise…



My thoughts recently had been on Mary—the life we might have had together. And as if reading my mind a letter arrived, filled with tactful concern and inviting me to on a visit to Sussex.

I found my explanation in the postscript:

In your latest story, my dear fellow, you gave both mistress and maid the same charming pseudonym.

Comments

[debriswoman]

Poignant
Glad Holmes picked up on it.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Thank you ^^

[debriswoman]

Checks for allergies then sprays light rose scent near scribe

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

*scribe is attacked by bees who are attracted by the scent* (C'mon - you're just making it easy for me now :P)

[debriswoman]

*sighs*
*gets new lawyer*

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Excellently spotted and put, Holmes. Love the explanation, too.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Thanks ^^ I realise Mary was (and still is) a common name but I wondered if Watson's thoughts might have been elsewhere as he wrote...

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

That would indeed explain the recurrent use of the name. One of them could have been called Violet I suppose.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Mrs. Maberley probably should have been a Violet - all the Violets in the canon are strong women ^^

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

Mary on the brain. Poor Watson.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed ^^" But his sadness will pass - Mary's been gone for a long while at this point.

[winryweiss.livejournal.com]

Aw, of course Holmes noticed this in instant.
Though, how he manages to do so while claiming that he does not read Watson's fanciful stories ... that's yet another of his mysteries. ^.~

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I think maybe Holmes had been missing Watson a bit too ^_^