Prompt for the 1st of December From Garonne - Tea or coffee?
I do wish that Holmes would sleep, if only for an hour or so. He has spent the entire night pacing in his bedroom and our sitting room - I could hear him from upstairs in my own bedroom - and I know that he will work himself into a fever if he does not have a care.
The fellow has not even noticed that I have come down for breakfast yet. I have already had two cups of coffee (under his very nose) to wake myself up and prepare for yet another long day on this case of his and now I wonder what I should pour for my friend.
Tea might help him to relax, but he would doubtless complain that he needs to think.
Coffee would help him to think, but the fellow is already rather tense enough and really does need to calm himself and to rest. An ill Sherlock Holmes is not going to be of any help to our hapless and distressed client.
"Holmes?"
He jumps slightly and turns his pale, drawn face sharply to glare at me for disturbing him.
I feel my face soften into a fond smile.
"Tea or coffee old man?"