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P.A. We are to meet in the kitchen in future.
ROLAND Are these the ‘servants’ quarters'? I suppose we are lucky to have anywhere at all to meet. Our new lords and masters appoint us our proper station. By the way – has Rosemary decided finally to throw in her lot with them? Does anyone know if she has married him? – Man, I mean.
ROBIN Who decides that? Rosemary, or Man? Holmes, you ought to know who is the perpetrator of the crime.
SHERLOCK No – I am only the detective; the rest I leave to the Courts. If she has disappeared I could try my skill, such as it is. If she is merely absent in mind we could enlist our psychoanalyst. The last I saw of her she was wearing all the trappings of our ruling classes.
ROLAND I am not sure what our ruling classes wear now. They used to wear very expensive clothes – as Alice can attest – but even that was not always showy or obvious. In fact, not so showy or obvious as the skivvy's clothes Alice is wearing now – those thick black stockings and sensible shoes – they look like Rosemary's cast-offs.
TOM She's jolly pretty even now, aren't you my sweet?
ALICE Don't!
WATSON Don't be upset. What he says is quite true you know, even if he does express it a bit roughly.
SHERLOCK If it were a criminal assault my services could be useful.
MORIARTY My dear Holmes! Aren't you a bit out of date? This woman, Alice, may be in Wonderland, but Wonderland is not Victorian England. Nor was Victorian England for that matter, as you at least should have known. That was a figment of imagination, a work of fiction.