"Why didn't she just-- Oh, yes, well that's quite a bit of money," John muses. He'd become a fairly rich man in the three years Sherlock had been off playing dead and wiping the world of... Well, John doesn't know. He's never really asked or sat down with Sherlock to discuss their time apart. It's not that he hadn't wanted to know, but there'd been too many emotions. And quite a lot of drama with his then-girlfriend as well.

John doesn't understand how the women in his life seem to despise his friend. He also has always neglected to see just how much he gives everything up completely for Sherlock.

It's one of his less charming foibles for everyone but Sherlock. And perhaps Mrs. Hudson.

Even so, John remembers being poor. And in remembering, he thinks of the things he might have done. Dressing a certain way and wearing his hair a certain way for a decent salary seems...well, not terrible.

"Don't suppose he's got some fetishes?"