Chapter 2
Jonathan Harker's Journal Continued5 May.—I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been
fully awake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable
place. In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and
as several dark ways led from it under great round arches, it
perhaps seemed bigger than it really is. I have not yet been able
to see it by daylight.
When the caleche stopped, the driver jumped down and held out
his hand to assist me to alight. Again I could not but notice his
prodigious strength. His hand actually seemed like a steel vice
that could have crushed mine if he had chosen. Then he took my
traps, and placed them on the ground beside me as I stood close to
a great door, old and studded with large iron nails, and set in a
projecting
