Something happens between them and Irene leaves, taking some embarrassing pictures with her as insurance. Insurance of what? She wants the king to leave her alone. She doesn't want money, she doesn't want jewels. She wants him gone.
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Holmes failed intellectually and professionally by allowing himself to be outsmarted by a woman, because he underestimated her for being a woman Holmes failed *morally* by allowing himself to be roped into siding against a woman by default, because he's a man burdened by sexism
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Just taking it for granted that the King's claim he needs protection in case Irene should decide to "act against him" makes any sense -- as though the risk to him is the important thing, as though news of their affair breaking out at all wouldn't be way more harmful to her
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EXACTLY. And framed by Watson's unreliable narration, you tend to miss it. I mean any discussion of Holmes' romantic life and lackthereof is academic. But the romance with Adler, specifically, has never seemed to fit well. Every take has to change her too much to make it work.
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Yeah -- resurrecting this for a sec, what info we manage to get about canon Irene Norton (née Adler) is that she's TIRED of whatever femme fatale shenanigans she may or may not have been involved with All of her actions in the actual story are to AVOID tangling with powerful men
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