AN: Anyone who hasn't seen Charles Gray in Diamonds are forever really, really ought to. I did think of his Persian cat after I wrote the chapter, and I probably will reference the role later on. And yes, poor Mycroft still isn't so keen on the more cuddly aspects of marriage... He's a Holmes, what can you expect?
Foreign
The maid watched the mistress of the house laugh as she waved a length of string for the kitten to paw at. She often pitied her mistress… Such a sweet young thing forced practically at gunpoint to marry a fat, proper grump like the master.
"D'you think that cat knows English?" asked the maid. "Bein' foreign and all?"
She thought for a moment, letting her tiny companion catch the thread. "Yes, I believe so… After all, he's young. A child speaks English when raised in England no matter if they were born in Siam or anywhere else."
It made sense to her. The master was intelligent, but the mistress, she was smart.