Mina Murray's journal, 12th of August. My expectations were wrong, for twice during the night I was wakened by Lucy trying to get out. She seemed, even in her sleep, to be a little impatient at finding the door shut and went back to bed under a sort of protest. I woke with the dawn and heard the birds chirping outside of the window. Lucy woke too and...
I was glad to see, was even better than on the previous morning. All her old gaiety of manner seemed to have come back, and she came and snuggled in beside me and told me all about Arthur. I told her how anxious I was about Jonathan, and then she tried to comfort me. Well, she succeeded somewhat, for though sympathy can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
Letter, Sister Agatha, Hospital of St. Joseph and St. Mary, Budapest, to Miss Wilhelmina Murray, 12th August. Dear Madam, I write by desire of Mr. Jonathan Harker, who is himself not strong enough to write, though progressing well thanks to God and St. Joseph and St. Mary. He has been under our care for nearly six weeks, suffering from a violent brain fever.
He wishes me to convey his love, and to say by this post I will write for him to Mr. Peter Hawkins, Exeter, to say with his dutiful respects, that he is sorry for his delay, and that all of his work is completed. He will require some few weeks rest in our sanatorium in the hills, but will then return. He wishes me to say that he has not sufficient money with him and that he would like to pay for his staying here so that others who need shall not be wanting for help. Believe me.
Yours with sympathy and all blessings, Sister Agatha. P.S. My patient being asleep, I open this to let you know something more. He has told me all about you and that you are shortly to be his wife. All blessings to you both. He has had some fearful shock, so says our doctor. And in his delirium, his ravings have been dreadful of wolves and poison and blood, of ghosts and demons and...
I fear to say of what. Be careful with him, always, that there may be nothing to excite him of this kind for a long time to come. Detresses of such an illness as his do not lightly die away. We should have written long ago, but we knew nothing of his friends, and there was on him nothing that anyone could understand. He came in the train from Clausenburg.
and the guard was told by the station master there that he rushed into the station shouting for a ticket for home. Seeing from his violent demeanor that he was English, They gave him a ticket for the furthest station on the way thither that the train reached. Be assured that he is well cared for. He has won all hearts by his sweetness and gentleness. He is truly getting on well, and I have no doubt will in a few weeks be all himself. But be careful of him, for safety's sake. There are...
I pray God and Saint Joseph and Saint Mary many, many happy years for you both. This episode featured... Isabelle Aramaco-Young as Meena Murray, and Bonnie Calderwood-Aspinwall as Sister Agatha. Dialogue editing by Steven Indrasano. Sound design by Tal Meniere. Produced by Ella Watts and Pacific S. Obadiah, with executive producers Stephen Andressano, Tal Manir, and Hannah Wright. A Bloody FM production.