A Scandal in Bohemia: Wedding Ring

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Canon Story: A Scandal in Bohemia
Title: Wedding Ring
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: ‘Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed.’ 'Drive like the devil,' he shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to the Church of St. Monica in the Edgware Road. Half a guinea if you do it in twenty minutes!'


Irene shook her head.

“In and out of that jeweller’s in minutes, but you chose a ring of the correct size and completely to my taste. Your powers of observation must equal those of Sherlock Holmes himself!”

“Really?” said Norton.

Irene burst into laughter, and Norton grinned. “I’ll buy you another.”

“No need...”

His wife smiled.

“I love this one.”

Comments

[debriswoman]

A warm and affectionate exchange:-)

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Aw. Very sweet and I don't suppose twenty minute elopements lend themselves to careful sizing.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

And there are things which matter more in a marriage than a ring, which is merely a symbol.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

"The shopkeeper gave it to me for a very good price, too! Ha, he said it was cursed!"

"Superstition!" Irene looked at the inscription around the gold band. "Hm...'One Ring to rule them all...'"

[sanguinity]

Aw, lovely. The token of the thing, and she'd rather have the ring that reflects his sincere haste and eagerness, than one that attempts to symbolize the quality of what's between them. (As if a piece of jewelry could accomplish that!)

(The engagement ring I gave my wife was a heat-of-the-moment thing, and similarly ill-chosen -- worse, even! poorly-fitting and the stones cut her skin, to boot -- but she categorically refused to let me replace it. Would not hear a word of it, and wore it as a pendant instead.)

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I like to think it was a very happy marriage ^_^

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

It's only occurred to me on this reading - unless he was collecting a ring he'd already ordered, it must have been a case of just pointing at the first one that caught his eye ^_^

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I think both Mr. and Mrs. Norton would have been very aware of that ^_^

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Oh, very amusing ^____^

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

D'you know, I was thinking indirectly of Holmes and his sovereign. He has no need of the cash the sovereign represents - instead he values it for the occasion it commemorates. (Though in his case, it's in a humorous way.)

That's such a lovely story about the engagement ring for your wife ^_^ I can absolutely see her point of view - engagement and wedding rings are never really about the physical object I suppose ^^