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Thank you very much for your explanations (about "getting to know" as well)!

Here "knows" means "gets to know" or "learns", right?

In "The Sign of the Four" by A. Conan Doyle (1890), Athelney Jones, a police officer, speaks about Sherlock Holmes:

"Your friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes is a wonderful man, sir," said he, in a husky...