Too well I know the broad fact.

Tell me all that has been." I told him exactly what had happened and he listened with seeming impassiveness, but his nostrils twitched and his eyes blazed as I told how the ruthless hands of the Count had held his wife in that terrible and horrid position, with her mouth to the open wound in his breast.
It interested me, even at that moment, to see that whilst the face of white set passion worked convulsively over the bowed head, the hands tenderly and lovingly stroked the ruffled hair.

Just as I had finished, Quincey and Godalming knocked at the door.

They entered in obedience to our summons.

Van Helsing looked at me questioningly.