I soon came to think that […] there was something, assuredly, very strange going on — not quantality, not relativity, but something much commoner, yet stranger.

Liam fast-forwarded the words through a mental decoder, militaryese to English.

She stays with the brown and white color scheme, but adds a purple stripe and fringe to the ends to represent Sherlock's “purple shirt of sex.”

But American women are not unawakened or unaspiring. To many of them, life has grown painful, because their advancing ideal is dishonored by a sense of violated justice.