- Sherlock Holmes: We've been invited to invest in the future. I mean, the children out there in the street: the little urchins, the poor, the undernourished, the beggars - all the poor in our society.
- Dr. John Watson: But it is asking a bit much of medical science that we should be around in 1988!
- Sherlock Holmes: Oh no, no, no, no - our memory may linger on. Or your writings may still be read; who knows? No, I suggest that we send Billy, our pageboy, to collect it on our behalf. Or his grandson!