She trembled with excitement, and than a great yearning seized her, as he slowly drove closer, for his brown hair was almost white, and the lines on his face seemed indelibly stamped.

And then hot anger shook her.

Fifteen years of her life wrecked, and look at Dannie! That was Jimmy Malone's work.
Over and over, throughout the winter, she had planned this home-coming as a surprise to Dannie.

Book-fine were the things she intended to say to him.

When he opened the door, and stared at her and about the altered room, she swiftly went to him, and took the bundles he carried from his arms.
"Hurry up, and unhitch, Dannie," she said.