The Angel from Dwight
- Holmes' assistant Benjamin Pitezel travels to Dwight, Illinois to seek the famous Keeley cure for alcoholism.
- There he meets Emeline Cigrand, a beautiful young woman who works as a stenographer in Dr. Keeley's office.
- Holmes writes to Cigrand and offers her a job as his personal secretary, doubling her salary.
- She leaves Keeley immediately, and immediately Holmes "deployed his tools of seduction, his soothing voice and touch and frank blue gaze" (2.6.6).
- Emeline becomes infatuated with Holmes, who claims he is the son of an English lord.
- He asks to marry her and says that for their honeymoon they'll visit his father, the lord, in England.