How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Story.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his forehead.
"What will the duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of the family has been subjected to such humiliation?"
"It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any humiliation."
"Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint [...] It was a slight, sir, a public sight," said Lord St. Simon, tapping his fingers upon the table [...] I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have been shamefully used" (Bachelor.171-8).
When Mary Sutherland loses Hosmer Angel, Holmes decides not to tell her the truth about Angel's identity because she's so fanatically devoted to Angel that she won't believe Holmes anyway. Her desire to find Angel is based solely on her love for him. Lord St. Simon, on the other hand, is told the news about his supposed wife's whereabouts. But his response has nothing to do with love – it's all "humiliation!" "a public slight!" "I have been shamefully used!" It seems to us that the difference between these two responses arises from Conan Doyle's assumptions about (a) gender (women are emotional, men less so), and (b) class (it's not like Sutherland's got a position in society that she's afraid to lose). Or is it just a contrast in temperament and character? How are these two cases similar and how different?
Quote #5
Public disgrace I might have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found out of this horrible affair (Coronet.13).
Alexander Holder faces public humiliation over the loss of the Beryl Coronet, but he's really worried that "the very noblest in the land may suffer." Why does he care about them when his own reputation's on the line? What does this tiny piece of information suggest about Holder's value system?