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"How do you feel about your upcoming nuptials?" Miss Mary Morstan asked of her friend, Molly Hooper.
"I feel like a piece of chattel, being sold to the highest bidder," she responded. "It's mortifying! My family is selling me because after two seasons on the shelf nobody has made me an offer because of my plain face."
"You're lovely!" Mary cried. "You have beautiful glossy hair and your chocolate eyes are so warm and friendly. You're petite and well formed, there is so much about you that is attractive."
"Everything you've just described as 'lovely' is what is out of fashion! The fashion is to be blonde, buxom and blue eyed. Everything that you are. Men don't want to dance with me, let alone marry me."
"Well one man does, Mr. Holmes does," Mary said slyly to her friend.
Molly drew a sigh, "He only wants me because he needs a wife," Molly replied. "My family is the only one willing to overlook the Holmes eccentricities and the only one desperate enough to sell their daughter."
"Well Mr. Holmes is incredibly handsome for all his eccentricity and we both know about his intelligence," Mary said, "I also think he wants you for more than his wife."
"You mean to help him with his experiments?" Molly questioned.
"No, I mean for his bed."
Molly laughed, "You would be wrong, I've only seen him five times and each time we've been accompanied. Each time we played chess and he scarcely said a word to me."
"No, Molly, I've seen the way he looks at you and it is not a 'oh she'll do well for my wife' look it's the look of a man who feels deeply and passionately for the woman he knows will be his."
"I'm sure you're just imagining things in this hot ballroom he is just grateful that I'm marrying him. When we spend any time together he rarely speaks to me or looks at me as if he's just bored and has far more important things to do with his time."
"Well, we'll soon find out as he is coming this way and it looks like he has something to say to you Molly." Mary spoke as she walked away leaving Molly alone with her fiance Mr. Sherlock Holmes.