Dracula by Bram Stoker, read by Mike Bennett. Bannett.

Episode 5.

Chapter 5.

Letter from Miss Meena-Mari to Miss Lucy Westenra.

9th May.

My dearest Lucy, forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed

with work. The life of an assistant school mistress is sometimes trying. I'm longing to be with you and by the sea where we can talk

together freely and build our castles in the air. I've been working very hard lately because I want to keep up with Jonathan's studies, and I have been practicing shorthand very assiduously.

When we are married, I shall be able to be useful to Jonathan, and if I can stenograph well enough I can take down

what he wants to say in this way and write it out for him on the typewriter, at which also

I am practicing very hard. He and I sometimes write letters in

shorthand and he is keeping a stenographic journal of his travels abroad. When I am

with you I shall keep a diary in the same way. I don't mean one of those two pages to the

week with Sunday squeezed in a corner diaries, but a sort of journal which I can write in whenever

I feel inclined. I do not suppose there would be much of interest

to other people, but is not intended for them. I may show it to Jonathan someday if there

is in it anything worth sharing, but it is really an exercise book.

I shall try to do what I see Lady Journalists do, interviewing and writing descriptions and trying to remember conversations.

I am told that with a little practice, one can remember all that goes on or that one he has

said during a day.

However, we shall see. I will tell you of my little plans when we meet.

I've just had a few hurried lines from Jonathan from Transylvania.

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