The stillness struck her.

She looked up in his eyes; she looked round the room and saw Helsing, now bowing profoundly from the corner; she turned her head with a sudden frightened jerk, and glanced at my motionless deferential servants.

Then it came upon her what she had done.

She gave a quick gasp for breath, and her face, always pale, went white as marble.

Her features set in a strange stiffness, and suddenly she reeled where she stood, and fell forward.