- You can’t police [Kitty] like that. You can’t tell her who she can and can’t talk to! […] I know how you feel about romantic entanglements. You think love is stupid? Fine, whatever […] this is exactly the same kinda crap you used to pull with me. I needed my space and so does she.
- Because you are the same! You’re situations are identical! Yes! You were a virtual hermit when I found you in London, you could barely look me in the eye because I was a man and a man had hurt you so horrifically. Yes, you told me on more than one occasion that you thought of doing yourself harm. Yes, yes, I see it now. You and her are virtually indistinguishable. Thank you for helping me see that, thank you. You’re assuming that I am interfering for selfish reasons but I am just merely trying to—
- To protect her.
- She’s come a long way, Watson. She’s come a very long way and most of that progress is testament to her great strength, yes, But I dare say that I had a hand. So if some dalliance was to go wrong, if it was to hurt her in come way—
- It would hurt you too.