Secrets

• they knew nothing at all of count dracula
• it was all very mysterious
• as they sink into the darkness i felt a strange chill and a lonely feeling
• the driver had disappeared into the darkness
• i handed him the sealed letter which mr hawkins had entrusted to me
• 'he is discrete and silent' [hawkins ref johnathan]
• in none of the rooms is there a mirror
• i did not like to go about the castle without the counts permission
• the door opposite mine, i tried but found it locked
• you may go anywhere in the castle, except where the doors are locked
• the castle is a veritable prisoner and i am a prisoner
• men of business who do not like the whole of their affairs to be known by any one person
• he [drac] knows that i know to much
• i know the span of my life
• take it [johns journal] and keep it, read it if you will, but never let me know
• we must obey, and silence is part of obedience
• we must not tell her [lucys mum] we must not even warn her, or she die and then both die
• we can arrange our plan of battle with this terrible and mysterious enemy
• and for you madam mina this night is the end until all be well, you are too precious to have such risk
• the whole place was thick with dust
• the secret belief that some of our dear friends [quincey] spirit passed into him