Well, that's another name he knows, but not in this context.
"I knew an Irene Adler," Watson says slowly, "but she had nothing to do with Moriarty. The king of Bohemia approached us, claiming that she was desperately in love with him even after the end of their affair, and that she intended to ruin his impending marriage by sending his future wife a photograph of the two of them. In retrospect, I rather doubt his version of events. Miss Adler outsmarted Holmes, married in secret, and ran away to America with her new husband. Holmes respected her, certainly, but love? I never knew him to speak of love, not about anyone."
Strange, the things that were different.
"Moriarty was a man at the head of a criminal empire who objected to Holmes's interference in his business. It culminated in a murderous attack in Switzerland at Reichenbach Falls. I thought both of them had perished there, but... apparently Holmes did not. Or so I have been told since I came here."
It's... very complicated, to be fair. And obviously upsetting.
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"I knew an Irene Adler," Watson says slowly, "but she had nothing to do with Moriarty. The king of Bohemia approached us, claiming that she was desperately in love with him even after the end of their affair, and that she intended to ruin his impending marriage by sending his future wife a photograph of the two of them. In retrospect, I rather doubt his version of events. Miss Adler outsmarted Holmes, married in secret, and ran away to America with her new husband. Holmes respected her, certainly, but love? I never knew him to speak of love, not about anyone."
Strange, the things that were different.
"Moriarty was a man at the head of a criminal empire who objected to Holmes's interference in his business. It culminated in a murderous attack in Switzerland at Reichenbach Falls. I thought both of them had perished there, but... apparently Holmes did not. Or so I have been told since I came here."
It's... very complicated, to be fair. And obviously upsetting.