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Oh, I see. I'm afraid I've only read about vampires in the more sensationalist papers, Mr Samara. I don't think that you're a monster. You are too much of a gentleman for that. But - and you'll excuse me for the bluntness, but you do need human blood?
Well, I shall agree with you that the Italians are of no benefit to Tripolitania whatsoever and ought to have kept clear, but don't you think the Romans accomplished a great deal, in their own time?
Thank you! I have always have an interest in such things. Of course, my family took some convincing. They would have had me married and settled at fourteen, given their way. But I can be quite persuasive. My travels were all chaperoned, all very proper. Then I had to return home on account of the wretched war, but that's another matter.
That must have been such an experience! Did you personally know the witch who called herself Isis, then?
I think it is a very good theory, and certainly makes more sense than others I've heard. There are all kinds of uses that a tremendous amount of magical energy could be put to. Not all of them good.