“She was an exquisite painter. She made her living restoring Renaissance paintings for art museums. She travelled extensively because of her work. She was…highly intelligent, optimistic about the human condition. Usually consider it a sign of stupidity but with Irene it seemed…almost convincing. She was, to me, The Woman. To me, she preclipsed and predominated the whole of her gender. The only one I ever—”

To Sherlock Holmes, she was always The Woman, the beautiful Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.

“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.”

- Robert Frost.

Natalie Dormer as Irene Adler in Elementary | 3

joan and sherlock + touching