The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (annotated)

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If the definition is on Wiktionary, but there are multiple definitions and it is not clear which is the right one, add a footnote to clarify. Despite his eminent respectability, he never abandons a friend whose reputation has been sullied or ruined. In such a society, it is significant that Utterson, so respectable himself, is known for his willingness to remain friends with people whose reputations have been damaged, or ruined. Several of the servants try to speak up, but Poole silences them and leads Utterson through the back garden, warning the lawyer that if "by any chance" Jekyll asks him into his private room, don't go.

Jekyll’s experiments with a potion lead to the physical and moral transformation into Hyde, an embodiment of his darker impulses. Utterson and Poole break into the laboratory, where they find Hyde wearing Jekyll's clothes and apparently dead from suicide.As the story begins, Utterson and Enfield are taking their regular Sunday stroll and walking down a particularly prosperous-looking street. Wikipedia: [[w:Robert Louis Stevenson]] — will link to the Encyclopedia article on Robert Louis Stevenson.

Hyde has had a huge influence on the popular imagination, and especially comic book characters like The Hulk and Batman’s Two-Face. I took the liberty of pointing out to my gentleman that the whole business looked apocryphal , and that a man does not, in real life, walk into a cellar door at four in the morning and come out of it with another man's cheque for close upon a hundred pounds. Shouting at Poole, he is delighted to recognize the doctor's handwriting and the date at the top of the note: Jekyll "was alive and here this day," he cries. The people who had turned out were the girl's own family; and pretty soon, the doctor, for whom she had been sent, put in his appearance.But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds ; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove.