[Dracula sees he needs some shoring up. He's awkward about how, but...honesty seems the best policy.]

So you were a scholar. A perfectly respectable profession, though from what I have read of twentieth century education practices it must have been the antithesis of intellectually stimulating.

What do you wish to do when you leave here? [Treat it like a foregone conclusion that Ed will make it and not fade away or give up.] Besides be a vampire, I mean.