Who welcomed Miss Mary Sutherland?

“Do you not find,” he said, “that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting?”

Mr. Holmes is he talking about?

“I did at first,” she answered, “but now I know where the letters are without looking.”

Miss Mary Sutherland refers to...

When you read:

Then, suddenly realising the full purport of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face.

You know the woman is...

Who said “it is my business to know things."

“I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as much for me.

"I’m not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in my own right."

Miss Mary Sutherland is...

“Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?” asked Sherlock Holmes, with his fingertips together and his eyes to the ceiling.

“Yes, I did bang out of the house,” she said, “for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. Windibank—that is, my father—took it all.

The easy way means...

He would not go to the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done.

“Your father,” said Holmes, “your stepfather, surely, since the name is different.”

I call him father, though it sounds funny, too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself.”

but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. They got £4700 for the goodwill and interest, which wasn’t near as much as father could have got if he had been alive.”

I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary