Jonathan Harker's Journal, October 1
- Quincey and Van Helsing ask why Seward didn't allow Renfield to go, and Seward says he was afraid Renfield wanted to go help Dracula somehow.
- They use a skeleton key to get into Carfax.
- Van Helsing hands out crucifixes and pieces of blessed communion wafers.
- They go into the chapel to check things out.
- Dracula hasn't called a cleaning service in a while: The place is covered with inches of dust and it smells like a locker room after a muggy summer season combined with ancient evil.
- They only find twenty-nine boxes. Where could the other twenty-one be?
- The place is filled with rats. Luckily, they brought a supply of terrier dogs, which were bred to kill rats. Problem solved.
- Of course, they still have the other problem of the twenty-one missing boxes of dirt and the bloodthirsty vampire on the loose.
- They go back to Seward's house and go to bed.
- Jonathan Harker notices that Mina looks a little pale.
Dr. Seward's Diary, October 1
- Van Helsing and Dr. Seward have a little chat about Renfield.
- Renfield is very sullen again and doesn't want to talk to either of them.
- Seward assures Van Helsing that he thinks it's for the best that Mina stay out of the way of their vampire-hunting. It's not a lady's business.
Mina's Journal, October 1
- Mina is in a bad mood this morning, maybe because her husband won't tell her anything that happened the night before.
- She describes what she did while they were at the Count's house snooping around.
- She says she went to bed when they left, but didn't feel sleepy.
- She could hear the dogs barking next door (killing the rats) and Renfield praying very loudly from his room below. She thought she saw a mist coming toward the house when she looked out the window.
- When she went to sleep she had weird dreams—something about a "pillar of cloud" in her room that seemed to have two red eyes.
Mina's Journal, October 2
- Again, Mina doesn't sleep well, so she asks Dr. Seward to give her something to help her sleep.
- History Snack! Sleep aids in 1897 meant combinations of opium and alcohol. That stuff will knock you out. And it's addictive.
- She takes the sleep aid and falls asleep.