Do you not find that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewr

[username65]

Hi There;
I am reading a book "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" written by Arthur Conan Doyle and there are sentences that I cannot understand. This book is a detective novel. In the story of "A Case of Identity" a woman has come to him and asked him to resolve an issue.

As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was peculiar to him.

“Do you not find,” he said, “that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting?”

“I did at first,” she answered, “but now I know where the letters are without looking.” Then, suddenly realising the full purport of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. “You’ve heard about me, Mr. Holmes,” she cried, “else how could you know all that?”

Words

bow:
1. intransitive to bend your body forwards from the waist, especially to show respect for someone

Paul rose from his chair, bowed, and left the room.

2. intransitive/transitive to bend your head forwards so that you are looking down

She knelt and bowed her head.
[https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/bow_1]

typewriting:
The action of pushing to letters to keyboard or typewriter.
https://www.lexico.com/definition/typewriting

There are two sentences that I cannot understand in this passage.

"bowed her into an armchair"
"Do you not find, that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting?”

In the first sentence, second meaning of "bow" sits here, but it does not fit the context. I cannot understand the second sentence.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Rover_KE]

1. He inclined his body forward from the waist as he gestured towards an armchair.

2. Don't you find it difficult to do so much typing with your poor eyesight?

 

[SoothingDave]

"Short sight" is either an old-fashioned or a British way of saying "nearsighted."