"You are determined in your course of action?"
"Yes."
"You realize you may not come out alive?"
"My chances are slim, I know. My opponent is formidable."
"Yes. That he is." Mycroft took a pinch of snuff and stared out of the window. The atmosphere of the Visitor's Room was so thick and tense he could have cut it with a knife. "So you're going to go through with this, then?"
"Naturally."
"I cannot in good conscience wish you good luck, I'm afraid. I'm decidedly with the other side."
"I quite understand," replied Professor James Moriarty. "Family matters. I know."