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Lucy Westenra’s Diary. 12 September.—
How good they all are to me. I quite love that dear Dr. Van Helsing. I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers. He positively frightened me, he was so fierce. And yet he must have been right
11 September.—
This afternoon I went over to Hillingham. Found Van Helsing in excellent spirits, and Lucy much better. Shortly after I had arrived, a big parcel from abroad came for the Professor. He opened it with much impressment—assumed, of course—and showed a great bundle of white flowers.
Dr. Seward’s Diary. 10 September.—
I was conscious of the Professor’s hand on my head, and started awake all in a second. That is one of the things that we learn in an asylum, at any rate.
“And how is our patient?”
“Well, when I left her, or rather when she left me,” I answered.
Lucy Westenra’s Diary. 9 September.—
I feel so happy to-night. I have been so miserably weak, that to be able to think and move about is like feeling sunshine after a long ...
9 September.—
was pretty tired and worn out when I got to Hillingham. For two nights I had hardly had a wink of sleep, and my brain was beginning to feel that numbness which marks cerebral exhaustion. Lucy was up and in cheerful spirits. When she shook hands with me she looked sharply in my face and said:—
Dr. Seward’s Diary—continued. 8 September.—
I sat up all night with Lucy. The opiate worked itself off towards dusk, and she waked naturally; she looked a different being from wha...
Dr. Seward’s Diary. 7 September.—
The first thing Van Helsing said to me when we met at Liverpool Street was:—
“Have you said anything to our young friend the lover of her?”
“No,” I said. “I waited till I had seen you, as I said in my telegram. I wrote him a letter simply telling him that you were coming, as Miss Westenra was not so well, and that I should let him know if need be.”