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astonishment he said, ‘You’re not the girl the doctor
wanted to marry, are you? You can’t be, you know, for
she’s dead.’
Mrs. Harker smiled sweetly as she replied, ‘Oh no! I

have a husband of my own, to whom I was married before
I ever saw Dr. Seward, or he me. I am Mrs. Harker.’
‘Then what are you doing here?’
‘My husband and I are staying on a visit with Dr.
Seward.’
‘Then don’t stay.’
‘But why not?’
I thought that this style of conversation might not be
pleasant to Mrs. Harker, any more than it was to me, so I
joined in, ‘How did you know I wanted to marry
anyone?’
His reply was simply contemptuous, given in a pause in
which he turned his eyes from Mrs. Harker to me,
instantly turning them back again, ‘What an asinine
question!’
‘I don’t see that at all, Mr. Renfield,’ said Mrs. Harker,
at once championing me.
He replied to her with as much courtesy and respect as
he had shown contempt to me, ‘You will, of course,
understand, Mrs. Harker, that when a man is so loved and

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