You must eat now, afterwards you shall tell me all." After lunch, when we went back to the drawing room, he said to me, "And now tell me all about him." When it came to speaking to this great learned man, I began to fear that he would think me a weak fool, and Jonathan a madman, that journal is all so strange, and I hesitated to go on.

But he was so sweet and kind, and he had promised to help, and I trusted him, so I said, "Dr.Van Helsing, what I have to tell you is so queer that you must not laugh at me or at my husband.

I have been since yesterday in a sort of fever of doubt.

You must be kind to me, and not think me foolish that I have even half believed some very strange things." He reassured me by his manner as well as his words when he said, "Oh, my dear, if you only know how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh.

I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be.