"I've never, never loved anyone but you, Jimmy," she said earnestly.
"I've never really loved anyone but you."
And Jimmy said, "Thank God!"
He looked at her with passionate thankfulness and love. He told her all that he had suffered since he went to the hotel and found she had gone. He said that she had punished him even more than she could ever have hoped.
"And that wire—— There was a wire to say that you were not coming back," he said with sudden bitter memory. She nodded.
"I sent it from Oxford. We had to change there. I meant to stay with
Gladys. Poor Gladys!" she added with a little soft laugh of happiness.
"She can do without you—I can't," he said quickly.
"Really and truly?" she asked wistfully.
Jimmy drew her again into his arms. He held her soft cheek to his own.
"I've never really wanted anything or anyone badly in all my life until now," he said. "Now you're here, in my arms, and I've got the whole world."
They sat silent for a little.