Summary

Chapter 25 begins with Seward recounting one of Mina’s sunset freedoms, when she can speak at will. Mina forces all the men to promise to kill her if she becomes too much like a vampire. She makes Jonathan read the Burial Service, in case she dies unexpectedly.

Jonathan notes in his journal that the team arrives in Varna on October 15. Mina sleeps a lot, but always rises for her hypnosis; Dracula is still on the ship sailing south. Arthur receives daily telegrams from London on the Czarina Catherine’s progress, but the ship is never reported anywhere. They make arrangements to get on board the ship as soon as it docks, under the pretense of looking for stolen goods. After a week of waiting, the ship is reported at Dardanelles.

The ship should arrive the next day, but after three days there is...