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Where Is the Photograph?
Walking back and forth outside the house, Holmes explains how the events at the church affect the situation. Where, then, is the photograph? Taking its size and the previous attempts into account, he begins by considering whether Adler is likely to carry it with her as she goes about her business.
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Walking back and forth outside the house, Holmes explains how the events at the church affect the situation. Where, then, is the photograph? Taking its size and the previous attempts into account, he begins by considering whether Adler is likely to carry it with her as she goes about her business.
"You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters.「いいかね」家の前を行きつ戻りつしながら、ホームズが言った。「この結婚で、事態はかえって単純になったのだよ。
The photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now.写真はいまや諸刃の剣になったわけだ。
The chances are that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his princess.依頼人が写真を王女の目に触れさせたくないのと同じくらい、彼女のほうもゴドフリー・ノートン氏には見られたくないはずだからね。
Now the question is, Where are we to find the photograph?"そこで問題は、写真がどこにあるか、だ」
"Where, indeed?"「まったく、どこにあるんだい？」
"It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her.「彼女が持ち歩いているとは、まず考えられない。
It is cabinet size.キャビネ判だからね。
Too large for easy concealment about a woman's dress.女性の服にこっそり隠すには大きすぎる。
She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid and searched.国王なら人を使って自分を待ち伏せさせ、身体検査くらいしかねないことを、彼女は承知している。
Two attempts of the sort have already been made.その手の試みは、すでに二度行われているのだ。
We may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her."だから、彼女は写真を持ち歩いていないと考えてよい」
"Where, then?"「じゃあ、どこにあるんだい？」