He actually smiled on her as he held open the door for her to pass into her room.

But the instant she had disappeared he pulled me, suddenly and forcibly, into the dining room and closed the door.
Then, for the first time in my life, I saw Van Helsing break down.

He raised his hands over his head in a sort of mute despair, and then beat his palms together in a helpless way.

Finally he sat down on a chair, and putting his hands before his face, began to sob, with loud, dry sobs that seemed to come from the very racking of his heart.
Then he raised his arms again, as though appealing to the whole universe.

"God! God! God!" he said.