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Full text: Japanese translation and original English

After Mary leaves, Holmes remains silent for a time, his fingertips together and his eyes fixed on the ceiling. He lights the old clay pipe that accompanies his deepest thought and leans back amid blue smoke. When he finally speaks, his first subject is not the mystery itself but the woman who brought it.

Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling.シャーロック・ホームズは数分間、黙って座っていた。指先は合わせたままで、両脚を前に伸ばし、視線を天井へ向けていた。
Then he took down from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of infinite languor in his face.やがて彼は、相談相手のように頼りにしている、古い油じみた陶製パイプをパイプ掛けから取り、火をつけた。椅子の背にもたれると、濃い青い煙が輪を巻いて立ち上り、その顔には限りないけだるさが浮かんだ。
"Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed.「あの娘さんは、なかなか面白い研究対象だね」と彼は言った。
"I found her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, is rather a trite one.「私は、あの人のちょっとした問題より、本人のほうが興味深かった。ついでに言えば、あの問題はかなりありふれたものだ。
You will find parallel cases, if you consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of the sort at The Hague last year.私の索引を調べれば、七七年のアンドーヴァーに似た事件が見つかるし、昨年のハーグにも同じようなものがあった。
Old as is the idea, however, there were one or two details which were new to me.もっとも、考え方そのものは古いが、細部には一つ二つ、私にも初めてのことがあった。
But the maiden herself was most instructive."だが、あの娘さん本人には、学ぶところが実に多かったよ」