My heart, whatever it may have been, was not then a doubting heart, but a very, very grateful one.

It was only the splendid magnitude of the truth which forbade its immediate acceptance.
I could have shouted for joy, and only stilled myself by keeping my thoughts fixed on the danger which my wife was in.

My wife! My wife! Not a Vampire; not a poor harassed creature doomed to terrible woe, but a splendid woman, brave beyond belief, patriotic in a way which has but few peers even in the wide history of bravery! I began to understand the true meaning of the strange occurrences that have come into my life.
Even the origin and purpose of that first strange visit to my room became clear.

No wonder that the girl could move about the Castle in so mysterious a manner.

She had lived there all her life, and was familiar with the secret ways of entrance and exit.