He made no effort to approach her.

Only his eyes remained fixed on her, hungrily devouring every line of the beloved face.
"Why did you come ?" she asked at last.

Her voice seemed to herself as though it came from a great distance.

It sounded like someone else speaking.
"I couldn't keep away.

Life without you has become one long, unbearable hell." He spoke with a strange, slow vehemence which seemed to hold the aggregated bitterness and pain of all those solitary months.
A shudder ran through her slight frame.