Van Helsing believes he knows the cause of Lucy's illness, but does not immediately explain it to Seward and the rest of the group.
Seward, realizing he doesn't understand the nature of Lucy's illness, calls in his former Professor Abraham Van Helsing, from Amsterdam, to help Lucy. Mina calls in Arthur, a nobleman and Lucy's fiancé, Seward, a doctor and chief of a London insane asylum, and Morris, a Texas man, to help Lucy-Seward and Morris were former suitors of Lucy's, and are now her friends. Mina brings Lucy back to her house, and notices, over the ensuing days, that Lucy's condition appears to be worsening. Lucy begins sleepwalking, and Mina finds Lucy one night bent over a rock in a cemetery above Whitby, with a ghastly shade above her. Meanwhile, Mina and Lucy, two young, upper-middle-class friends in England, are on vacation at Whitby, an English port. Harker escapes from the castle through his window and brings his journal with him, to show his experiences to his fiancée Mina. Harker attempts to kill Dracula by gashing him in the face with a shovel, but Dracula seems only superficially harmed. Eventually, Harker decides to escape and finds a deep basement chapel in the castle, where Dracula sleeps in a wooden box filled with earth. But Dracula intervenes, saying Harker is "his," and carries Harker back to his own bedroom. Harker, in the meantime, stumbles upon a room of the castle in which he meets the demonic forms of three women, who appear to want to drink his blood. Harker observes Dracula crawling out his window, along the castle walls, "like a lizard," and even believes he has seen Dracula turn himself into a bat. Harker realizes, slowly, that Dracula was, in fact, the "strange driver" who brought Harker there, and that Dracula is holding Harker prisoner. And the Count appears to be the only person living in the Castle. Harker finds the Count odd-he is active only at night, and seems never to eat. Harker is picked up by a strange driver and taken to the castle, where he meets the Count and begins to discuss business. Harker worries, as he approaches the castle, about the superstitious locals, who seem to fear Dracula. Dracula opens with a young solicitor's assistant, Jonathan Harker, en route from Budapest into Transylvania, to visit the Castle Dracula and to meet with Count Dracula, a nobleman who has recently purchased an estate in London called Carfax.
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