I believe, somehow, that ACD would be the kind of guy who likes manliness today who also thinks it more manly to listen to people, men, women, and children, who talk to him as though they are people. The kind who treats everyone with respect and doesn't give in to cutting other people down to build himself up. The kind of manliness I like... Yet I'm always suspicious of any man who stands for chivalry, duty, Englishness, stiff upper lip. But the man can't help it, I suppose. His characters…
