Who was Helen stoner ? Comment on her appearance at Sherlock Holmes chambers
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When Helen and her twin sister, Julia, were only two-years-old, their wealthy widowed mother married Dr. Grimesby Roylott, a professional and successful doctor who lived in Calcutta. It seemed that he had been a decent husband and stepfather, for Helen did not mention him being abusive in any way towards her or her family in her later accounting to Holmes.
However, Helen noted that his anger could lead him to be excessively irrational and violent - he once beat his native butler to death, for which he narrowly escaped a capital sentence, though he was still imprisoned for a long time.
Adult Life
When he was finally released from prison, Dr. Roylott took his family to live in England, where he attempted to establish a new practice in London. However, when Helen was only twenty-four-years-old, her mother was killed in a railway accident. Shortly after this, Dr. Roylott took Helen and Julia to live with him in his old ancestral home at Stoke Moran. Despite being diminished due to fall in agricultural prices, the fortune that Helen's mother had left for her surviving family was still sufficient for all their wants, and in her will, she stated that the entire sum was Dr. Roylott's to manage as he saw fit as long as Helen and Julia lived with him. However, there was also a provision: each sister would receive a certain annual sum respectively from this fortune in the event of their marriages.