Thanks! Yeah, I had fun contrasting all the sturm und drang of the worry for Watson's health with Watson dismissing his illness with 2 sentences in a story.
There's not a lot of difference between the Irregulars, Jake, and Lestrade - all had the same rough upbringing. But in the Irregulars we see the mentoring and adult supervision that will make sure they don't turn out like Willerton - the same sort of caring that probably kept Lestrade from turning out the same way.
Mrs. Hudson may be a good Christian woman (with all the baggage that implies), but she's also seen that a couple of sinners can often do more good than a whole church full of pious people can do. So she's learned to turn a blind eye to bigoted preaching (against Irish Catholics as well as against sexual deviants), and a deaf ear to illegal words of love.
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There's not a lot of difference between the Irregulars, Jake, and Lestrade - all had the same rough upbringing. But in the Irregulars we see the mentoring and adult supervision that will make sure they don't turn out like Willerton - the same sort of caring that probably kept Lestrade from turning out the same way.
Mrs. Hudson may be a good Christian woman (with all the baggage that implies), but she's also seen that a couple of sinners can often do more good than a whole church full of pious people can do. So she's learned to turn a blind eye to bigoted preaching (against Irish Catholics as well as against sexual deviants), and a deaf ear to illegal words of love.