He had travelled a long way to find her, and now that she stood there before him in flesh and blood he was not interested in much else.

It was a rather difficult situation.

He had known her so long, she had been with him so constantly, filling even his dreams, that it was difficult for him to find words in which to begin speech.

When they did come they were most commonplace; his voice was quiet, with an assured and protecting note in it.
"My name is David Raine," he said.

"I have come a great distance to find you." It was a simple and unemotional statement of fact, with nothing that was alarming in it, and yet the girl shrank closer against her bear.