When Sherlock looks at Irene in his index, he reveals where she comes from; his work; his residence; and his year of birth. The index reveals no marriage before Godfrey, so she lived her life as a spinster. A spinster does not fit the Victorian ideal of a woman. Instead of getting married to someone right away, Irene decides to live her life. He travels to England and, according to the king's confession, “a long visit to Warsaw” also to Germany (Doyle, 6). “…she in her house,” suggests that Irene has her own house. In Victorian society, a woman would have to give up her possessions otherwise they still belonged to her father. Women were not allowed to own property. The letter Irene left Sherlock mentioned earlier revealed that she herself had trained as an actress (Doyle, aged 12). In Victorian society, women who worked as actresses had a bad reputation. If a woman had the occupation of an actress, Victorian society considered her non-marital material. An actress's husband can't tell whether she really loves him or not. He could have faked his love the whole time. To contradict this stereotype, actresses had to live their ordinary lives like other people. Deborah Pye, of the University of Texas, says that Victorian actresses saw themselves as normal, respectable women, who were just as concerned that their profession had skills just like other professions (Pye, 73).