'Don't you know me ?' I asked.

His answer was not reassuring: 'I know you well enough; you are the old fool Van Helsing.

I wish you would take yourself and your idiotic brain theories somewhere else.

Damn all thick-headed Dutchmen!' Not a word more would he say, but sat in his implacable sullenness as indifferent to me as though I had not been in the room at all.

Thus departed for this time my chance of much learning from this so clever lunatic, so I shall go, if I may, and cheer myself with a few happy words with that sweet soul Madam Mina.