We men pledged ourselves to raise the veil of sorrow from the head of her whom, each in his own way, we loved.

And we prayed for help and guidance in the terrible task which lay before us.

It was then time to start.

So I said farewell to Mina, a parting which neither of us shall forget to our dying day, and we set out.
To one thing I have made up my mind.

If we find out that Mina must be a vampire in the end, then she shall not go into that unknown and terrible land alone.