She turned as she heard him, and took a step towards him with outstretched hands.
"Thank God you came," she said, as he caught her in his arms and held her.
"Darling, darling!" he whispered. "Ailleen, you are mine now."
"I always was," she answered, as she clung to him. "Oh, why have you been so long in coming? I thought you had forgotten."
"You sent me away the day I came, and they said——"
"Tony!"
She raised her head as she spoke, and looked at him with eyes full of deep reproach.
"I hardly cared for anything then," he said.
"Tony, I never meant that," she answered. "You rode off, and I thought——I'm so sorry, Tony."
The voice of the blind woman interrupted them.