The time is coming for action.

Today this Vampire is limit to the powers of man, and till sunset he may not change.

It will take him time to arrive here, see it is twenty minutes past one, and there are yet some times before he can hither come, be he never so quick.

What we must hope for is that my Lord Arthur and Quincey arrive first." About half an hour after we had received Mrs.Harker's telegram, there came a quiet, resolute knock at the hall door.

It was just an ordinary knock, such as is given hourly by thousands of gentlemen, but it made the Professor's heart and mine beat loudly.