Harker writes that Dracula returned to the asylum and broke Renfield’s neck. They go to Carfax a day later and sabotage the boxes of earth by placing communion wafers in each one. Before moving on to Piccadilly, Van Helsing fortifies Mina’s room with more wafers. He tries to bless her by placing a wafer against her forehead, but it burns her skin. She cries, calling herself unclean.

After getting keys to Dracula’s other houses, Holmwood and Morris go to the London House. Harker and Van Helsing go to Piccadilly. However, they find only eight boxes there. Dracula has managed to save one. Mina relays a message: Dracula is no longer in Carfax. They wait for him at Piccadilly, certain that they will surprise him. He is weak when he arrives, since the sun is up. He escapes from them by jumping out of a window.

Van Helsing is confident. He places Mina under hypnosis, hoping that she can locate Dracula from a trance state. She hears the sea, and they wonder if this means he is escaping to England by water. Jonathan worries that if he escapes, Mina will eventually turn into a vampire.