Answer in about 50 words to the questions given below : (4 marks)Q.5 (D) (ii) Write in short about the introductory meeting of Sherlock Holmes and Mary Morstan in ‘The Sign of Four.’ (2)

Answer: Mary Morstan came to Holmes’s rooms at Baker Street to seek his help about her missing father, the yearly pearls and a mysterious letter.

Miss Mary Morstan, a young, blonde, neatly dressed governess, called on Holmes at 221B Baker Street. She calmly told him that her father, Captain Morstan, had disappeared in London in 1878; that since 1882 she had received a lustrous pearl every year from an unknown sender; and that a letter now asked her to meet the writer outside the Lyceum Theatre with two friends. Holmes listened keenly, praised her clear statement and agreed to accompany her with Watson.