from preston and child's White fire:"true courage sometimes revealed itself in the most unlikely places .Few could have resisted such a through assault;Miss Pembroke,who after all,just doing her job,was one in a thousand.His thin lips twitched in a smile.Then he tossed the papers into a nearby trash can.And as he descended the steps heading for the station and the train back to London-he quoted under his breath:"to Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman.I have sedom heard him mention her under any other name.in his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex...'"