"When our sane and learned lunatic made that very statement of how he used to consume life, his mouth was actually nauseous with the flies and spiders which he had eaten just before Mrs.Harker entered the room." Van Helsing smiled in turn.

"Good!" he said.

"Your memory is true, friend John.

I should have remembered.

And yet it is this very obliquity of thought and memory which makes mental disease such a fascinating study.