- [last lines]
- Sherlock Holmes: What is the meaning of it, Watson? What is the object of this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must have a purpose. Or our universe has no meaning and that is unthinkable. But what purpose?
- [pause]
- Sherlock Holmes: That...
- [pause]
- Sherlock Holmes: is humanity's great problem to which reason, so far, has no answer.
- Sarah Cushing: Here. Make yourself useful.
- [Hands Jim one end of a bedsheet and begins folding it]
- Sarah Cushing: Drop the side then.
- Jim Browner: What?
- Sarah Cushing: Well, you drop this and bring it up the other side.
- Jim Browner: What d'ye mean? Mary doesn't do that.
- Sarah Cushing: There are plenty of things Mary doesn't do, I daresay.