A/N: I recently reacquainted myself with The Adventure of the Abbey Grange and took my inspiration for the prompt from it. It is both a mystery and a romance. The short encounter I imagine below will make more sense if one is familiar with the Abbey Grange and its characters - Mary Fraser Brackenstall, her husband Sir Eustace Brackenstall, and Captain Crocker.
The blond beauty from Australia folded her hands, staring into the flames dying in the hearth. A keen observer might have noticed the tears that swam in the blue of her eyes recalling lost memories.
'Tap, tap,' a noise at the window captured her attention.
"Eustace?" she turned, confused why her husband might beckon from outside.
"No, it's not. It is I, Captain Crocker.
"Oh!" the colour from her face blanched, save for two rosy circles.
He paused, hardly daring to breathe, waiting for her response.
"…but I am glad to see you!"
His muscular frame, strong enough to harpoon a whale, melted. She opened the window for him.
~ 221B~
"Vox populi, vox Dei. You are acquitted, Captain Crocker. So long as the law does not find some other victim you are safe from me. Come back to this lady in a year, and may her future and yours justify us in the judgment which we have pronounced this night!"
~ Holmes in The Adventure of Abbey Grange, ACD
Prompt from Stutley Constable: ...it's not, but I am glad to see you.