Van Helsing, I have not forgotten your mercy in poor Lucy’s case to him who loved”⁠—she stopped with a flying blush, and changed her phrase⁠—“to him who had best right to give her peace. If that time shall come again, I look to you to make it a happy memory of my husband’s life that it was his loving hand which set me free from the awful thrall upon me.”

“Again I swear!” came the Professor’s resonant voice.

Mrs.

Harker smiled, positively smiled, as with a sigh of relief she leaned back and said:⁠—