Madam Mina. It was begun after you had left, and was an imitation of you, and in that diary she traces by inference certain things to a sleep-walking in which she puts down that you saved her. In great perplexity then I come to you, and ask
you out of your so much kindness to tell me all of it that you
can remember.’
‘I can tell you, I think, Dr. Van Helsing, all about it.’
‘Ah, then you have good memory for facts, for details? It is not always so with young ladies.’
‘No, doctor, but I wrote it all down at the time. I can show
it to you if you like.’
‘Oh, Madam Mina, I well be grateful. You will do me much favour.’
I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths, so I handed him the shor
