Holmes: Watson! You are as brown as a nut. Poor devil!

What are you up to

now?”

Watson: Looking for lodgings. Trying to solve the problem as to whether it

is possible to get comfortable rooms at a reasonable price.

Holmes: That's a strange thing, you are the third man today that has used
that expression to me.

Watson: And who were the first and the second?

Holmes: Sir Henry Baskerville and Dr. Mortimer.

(Baskerville and Mortimer enter)

Mortimer: This is Sir Henry Baskerville.

Baskerville: Yes I am. And the strange thing is, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, that
if my friend here had not proposed coming round to you this morning I should
have come on my own account.

Holmes: Please take a seat, Sir Henry. Do I understand you to say that you
have yourself had some remarkable experience since you arrived in London?

Baskerville: Yes, I need to solve a mystery.

Mortimer: I understand that you think out little puzzles, and Mr. Baskerville
had one this morning which wants more thinking out than I am able to give
it.”

Baskerville: Nothing of much importance, Mr. Holmes. It was this letter, if

you can call it a letter, which reached me this morning.

Watson: Please leave the envelope upon the table.

Mortimer: I see it is of common quality, grayish in colour.

Watson: The address, “Sir Henry Baskerville, Northumberland Hotel,” is

printed in rough characters; the postmark “Charing Cross,” and the date of
posting the preceding evening.

Holmes: Who knew that you were going to the Northumberland Hotel?

Baskerville: No one could have known. We only decided after I met Dr.
Mortimer.
 Holmes: But Dr. Mortimer was no doubt already stopping there?

Mortimer: No, I had been staying with a friend. There was no possible
indication that we intended to go to this hotel.