He rang the bell to call the butler and asked to see Lady Hilda’s husband so that he could tell him
about the letter. When the butler said that Mr Trelawney Hope was not in, Holmes said he would
wait for him. Lady Hilda then admitted she had the letter because she didn’t want Holmes to tell
her husband about it.Many years ago, she had written a letter to a man she loved. Her husband did not know about this
man or the letter. Eduardo Lucas had contacted Lady Hilda and told her that he had her love letter.
He told her that she must steal a different letter from her husband for him. If she did not get the
letter he wanted, he would send her love letter to her husband.Yes, Holmes was probably right not to tell them. There wasn’t a war because the letter was
recovered and returned to the government. Holmes understood that Lady Hilda had done
something foolish because she was frightened – he knew that she wasn’t really a criminal, so it
wasn’t important for him to tell her husband what had happened.He was a pleasant-looking young Londoner who was a stockbroker’s clerk. He had an honest face,
fair hair and a little yellow moustache and he wore a black suit. He had worked for a good firm of
stockbrokers called Coxon and Woodhouse for five years but he had lost his job. He had applied for
other jobs and got one at Mawson and Williams, another firm of stockbrokers.It had been difficult for him to get his new job after he had lost his job with Coxon’s and he did not
want to throw it away. He did not know anything about hardware, so he did not understand why
Mr Pinner wanted him for the job. He took it because the new offer sounded exciting and he
would earn five hundred pounds a year instead of two hundred pounds a year at Mawson’s.He asked Hall Pycroft to write a letter to him agreeing to take the job. It was strange because
Hall Pycroft had already accepted the job by word-of-mouth, which was normal for this kind of job.