Lips quirking, Holmes shakes his head again. "Not a particularly satisfactory response. But the only answer forthcoming, I suppose?"

He shrugs angular shoulders. "Although to borrow your expression, if I may, we are in fact well met. You are a frustrating creature, and a strangely sensible one nevertheless." He pauses to think a moment, then chuckles low in his throat.

"Or perhaps madness recognizes similar madness as good sense."