(Excerpt from Dracula, 1897)
"Do you know what day it is?"
I answered that it was the fourth of May.
She shook her head as she said again: "Oh, yes! I know that, I know that! but do you know what day it is?"
On my saying that I did not understand, she went on: "It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?"