The first thing I saw was fire. After that, this... I am mad. I see a man who is not here beside you looking at me as though he'd rip my throat out with his teeth if he could. There was fire. I saw Dracula, as he was last year when John and I had to... had to pick up where our fathers left off. I did not know it was him. I swear to you I didn't know. When - when he didn't go to ashes, I... it's what I had to do for Gwendolyn, it's what my father and Ar - Lord Godalming did for Lucy, I didn't...

[He shakes his head, slowly, momentarily at a loss for words.]

I deserve worse than this place could do to me. You're from somewhere... that he'd tell a stranger, even if it were a secret, you're from some place like the America Whitman hoped for, you're from somewhere that it's safe to - to - God! God, Almighty God, you were both of my kind and I have killed not just him but -

I -

Let the woman with the talons have me. She will take her time, if you tell her what I've done, I'm sure. I've crossed - there is no going back from what I've done.