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A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA I . To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman . I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name . In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex . It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler . All emotions , and that one particularly , were abhorrent to his cold , precise but admirably balanced mind . He was , I take it , the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen , but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position . He never spoke of the softer passions , save with a gibe and a sneer . They were admirable things for the observer — excellent for drawing the veil from men’s motives and actions . But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results . Grit in a sensitive instrument , or a crack in one of his own high - power lenses , would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his . And yet there was but one woman to him , and that woman was the late Irene Adler , of dubious and questionable memory . I had seen little of Holmes lately . My marriage had drifted us away from each other . My own complete happiness , and the home - centred interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master of his own establishment , were sufficient to absorb all my attention , while Holmes , who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul , remained in our lodgings in Baker Street , buried among his old books , and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition , the drowsiness of the drug , and the fierce energy of his own keen nature . He was still , as ever , deeply attracted by the study of crime , and occupied his immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in following out those clues , and clearing up those mysteries which had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police . From time to time I heard some vague account of his doings : of his summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder , of his clearing up of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee , and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland . Beyond these signs of his activity , however , which I merely shared with all the readers of the daily press , I knew little of my former friend and companion .
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