“There’s an east wind coming, Watson.”

“I think not, Holmes. It is very warm.”

“Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There’s an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson and a good many of us may wither before its blast.”

 

Sherlock Holmes in “His Last Bow—An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes” in His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle