I asked him what it was that he wanted to see me about, so he at once began.
"I have read your letters to Miss Lucy.

Forgive me, but I had to begin to inquire somewhere, and there was none to ask.

I know that you were with her at Whitby.

She sometimes kept a diary, you need not look surprised, Madam Mina.

It was begun after you had left, and was an imitation of you, and in that diary she traces by inference certain things to a sleep-walking in which she puts down that you saved her.
In great perplexity then I come to you, and ask you out of your so much kindness to tell me all of it that you can remember." "I can tell you, I think, Dr.Van Helsing, all about it." "Ah, then you have good memory for facts, for details?
It is not always so with young ladies." "No, doctor, but I wrote it all down at the time.