While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us.
Mientras Sherlock Holmes iba exponiendo los detalles de esta singular serie de acontecimientos, rodábamos a toda velocidad por las afueras de la gran ciudad, hasta que dejamos atrás las últimas casas desperdigadas y seguimos avanzando con un seto rural a cada lado del camino.