Doyle insisted on only one thing: there was to be no love interest in "Sherlock Holmes". Frohman uttered a Victorian rendition of "Trust me!" Gillette then read the entire collection for the first time, outlining the piece in San Francisco while still touring in "Secret Service". On one occasion, after they had exchanged numerous telegrams about the play, Gillette telegraphed Conan Doyle: "May I marry Holmes?" Doyle responded: "You may marry him, or murder or do what you like with him." Gillette's "Sherlock Holmes" consisted of four acts combining elements from several of Doyle's stories. He mainly utilized the plots ""A Scandal in Bohemia"" and ""The Final Problem"". Also, it had elements from "A Study in Scarlet", "The Sign of Four", "The Boscombe Valley Mystery", and "The Greek Interpreter". However, all the characters in the play were Gillette's own creations with the exception of Holmes, Watson, and Moriarty. His creation of Billy the Buttons (Pageboy) was later used by Doyle for "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone". Gillette portrayed Holmes as brave and open to express his feelings, which was substantially different from the intellectual-only original, "a machine rather than a man". He wore the deerstalker cap on stage, which was originally featured in illustrations by Sidney Paget. Gillette introduced the curved or bent briar pipe instead of the straight pipe pictured by Strand Magazine's illustrator Sidney Paget, most likely so that Gillette could pronounce his lines more easily; a straight pipe can wiggle or fall when speaking, or cause problems with declaring lines while it is clenched between the teeth. It is less difficult to pronounce lines clearly with a curved pipe. Some have lately theorized that a straight pipe may have obscured Gillette's face. This could not happen with a curved briar in his mouth. Gillette also made use of a magnifying-glass, a violin, and a syringe, which all came from the Canon and which were all now established as "props" to the Sherlock Holmes character. Gillette formulated the complete phrase: ""Oh, this is elementary, my dear fellow"", which was later reused by Clive Brook, the first spoken-cinema Holmes, as: ""Elementary, my dear Watson"", Holmes's best known line and one of the most famous expressions in the English language. Irene Adler was "The Woman" of the Holmes canon, but she was replaced by Alice Faulkner, a young and beautiful lady who was planning to avenge her sister's murder but eventually fell in love with Holmes; and the pageboy, nameless in the Canon, was given the name Billy by Gillette, a name that carried over into the Basil Rathbone films and that has been retained ever since.