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1He turned the handle as he spoke, but the door did not yield. We threw ourselves against it; with a crash it burst open,
2and we almost fell headlong into the room. The Professor did actually fall, and I saw across him as he gathered himself
3up from hands and knees. What I saw appalled me. I felt my hair rise like bristles on the back of my neck, and my heart
4seemed to stand still. The moonlight was so bright that through the thick yellow blind the room was light enough to see.
5On the bed beside the window lay Jonathan Harker, his face flushed and breathing heavily as though in a stupor. Kneeling
6on the near edge of the bed facing outwards was the white-clad figure of his wife. By her side stood a tall, thin man,
7clad in black. His face was turned from us, but the instant we saw we all recognised the Count--in every way, even to
8the scar on his forehead. With his left hand he held both Mrs. Harker's hands, keeping them away with her arms at full
9tension; his right hand gripped her by the back of the neck, forcing her face down on his bosom. Her white nightdress
10was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare breast which was shown by his torn-open dress.
11The attitude of the two had a terrible resemblance to a child forcing a kitten's nose into a saucer of milk to compel it
12to drink. As we burst into the room, the Count turned his face, and the hellish look that I had heard described seemed
13to leap into it. His eyes flamed red with devilish passion; the great nostrils of the white aquiline nose opened wide
14and quivered at the edge; and the white sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood-dripping mouth, champed together
15like those of a wild beast. With a wrench, which threw his victim back upon the bed as though hurled from a height, he
16turned and sprang at us. But by this time the Professor had gained his feet, and was holding towards him the envelope
17which contained the Sacred Wafer. The Count suddenly stopped, just as poor Lucy had done outside the tomb, and cowered
18back. Further and further back he cowered, as we, lifting our crucifixes, advanced. The moonlight suddenly failed, as a
19great black cloud sailed across the sky; and when the gaslight sprang up under Quincey's match, we saw nothing but a
20faint vapour. This, as we looked, trailed under the door, which with the recoil from its bursting open, had swung back
21to its old position. Van Helsing, Art, and I moved forward to Mrs. Harker, who by this time had drawn her breath and
22with it had given a scream so wild, so ear-piercing, so despairing that it seems to me now that it will ring in my ears
23till my dying day. For a few seconds she lay in her helpless attitude and disarray. Her face was ghastly, with a pallor
24which was accentuated by the blood which smeared her lips and cheeks and chin; from her throat trickled a thin stream of
25blood; her eyes were mad with terror. Then she put before her face her poor crushed hands, which bore on their whiteness
26the red mark of the Count's terrible grip, and from behind them came a low desolate wail which made the terrible scream
27seem only the quick expression of an endless grief. Van Helsing stepped forward and drew the coverlet gently over her
28body, whilst Art, after looking at her face for an instant despairingly, ran out of the room. Van Helsing whispered to
29me:-- "Jonathan is in a stupor such as we know the Vampire can produce. We can do nothing with poor Madam Mina for a few
30moments till she recovers herself; I must wake him!" He dipped the end of a towel in cold water and with it began to
31flick him on the face, his wife all the while holding her face between her hands and sobbing in a way that was
32heart-breaking to hear. I raised the blind, and looked out of the window. There was much moonshine; and as I looked I
33could see Quincey Morris run across the lawn and hide himself in the shadow of a great yew-tree. It puzzled me to think
34why he was doing this; but at the instant I heard Harker's quick exclamation as he woke to partial consciousness, and
35turned to the bed. On his face, as there might well be, was a look of wild amazement. He seemed dazed for a few seconds,
36and then full consciousness seemed to burst upon him all at once, and he started up. His wife was aroused by the quick
37movement, and turned to him with her arms stretched out, as though to embrace him; instantly, however, she drew them in
38again, and putting her elbows together, held her hands before her face, and shuddered till the bed beneath her shook.
39"In God's name what does this mean?" Harker cried out. "Dr. Seward, Dr. Van Helsing, what is it? What has happened? What
40is wrong? Mina, dear, what is it? What does that blood mean? My God, my God! has it come to this!" and, raising himself
41to his knees, he beat his hands wildly together. "Good God help us! help her! oh, help her!" With a quick movement he
42jumped from bed, and began to pull on his clothes,--all the man in him awake at the need for instant exertion. "What has
43happened? Tell me all about it!" he cried without pausing. "Dr. Van Helsing, you love Mina, I know. Oh, do something to
44save her. It cannot have gone too far yet. Guard her while I look for him!" His wife, through her terror and horror and
45distress, saw some sure danger to him: instantly forgetting her own grief, she seized hold of him and cried out:-- "No!
46no! Jonathan, you must not leave me. I have suffered enough to-night, God knows, without the dread of his harming you.
47You must stay with me. Stay with these friends who will watch over you!" Her expression became frantic as she spoke;
48and, he yielding to her, she pulled him down sitting on the bed side, and clung to him fiercely. Van Helsing and I tried
49to calm them both. The Professor held up his little golden crucifix, and said with wonderful calmness:-- "Do not fear,
50my dear. We are here; and whilst this is close to you no foul thing can approach. You are safe for to-night; and we must
51be calm and take counsel together." She shuddered and was silent, holding down her head on her husband's breast. When
52she raised it, his white night-robe was stained with blood where her lips had touched, and where the thin open wound in
53her neck had sent forth drops. The instant she saw it she drew back, with a low wail, and whispered, amidst choking
54sobs:-- "Unclean, unclean! I must touch him or kiss him no more. Oh, that it should be that it is I who am now his worst
55enemy, and whom he may have most cause to fear." To this he spoke out resolutely:-- "Nonsense, Mina. It is a shame to me
56to hear such a word. I would not hear it of you; and I shall not hear it from you. May God judge me by my deserts, and
57punish me with more bitter suffering than even this hour, if by any act or will of mine anything ever come between us!"
58He put out his arms and folded her to his breast; and for a while she lay there sobbing. He looked at us over her bowed
59head, with eyes that blinked damply above his quivering nostrils; his mouth was set as steel. After a while her sobs
60became less frequent and more faint, and then he said to me, speaking with a studied calmness which I felt tried his
61nervous power to the utmost:--
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