Literally.
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There must be something comforting about the number three. People always give up after three.
Every great cause has martyrs. Every war has suicide missions, and, make no mistake, this is war. One half of the human race at war with the other. The invisible army hovering at our elbow, tending to our homes, raising our children, ignored, patronised, disregarded, not allowed so much as a vote, but an army nonetheless, ready to rise up in the best of causes, to put right an injustice as old as humanity itself. So you see, Watson, Mycroft was right. This is a war we must lose.
Sherlock Holmes: Imagine someone's going to get murdered at a wedding. Who exactly would you pick?Mrs. Hudson: I think you're a popular choice at the moment, dear.