I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror.

But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.

At the first coming of the dawn the horrid figures melted in the whirling mist and snow.

The wreaths of transparent gloom moved away towards the castle, and were lost.
Instinctively, with the dawn coming, I turned to Madam Mina, intending to hypnotize her.

But she lay in a deep and sudden sleep, from which I could not wake her.