Andrew Wright’s arrival in Buda turns a search for a missing sister into a reunion across the barrier of Glynis Wright’s new life as Vlad Dracula’s vampire bride. The encounter briefly restores the intimacy of their family bond, but it does not resolve the danger surrounding Glynis or establish that she can leave with Andrew.

The Search in Buda

Andrew comes to Buda intending to find Glynis and take her home if she is well enough. The account he has received from Vlad has led him to expect that his sister is being moved from the country estate to the home of Sir Stephen Sheridan, supposedly to be nearer good medical care. When Andrew asks after Glynis, Maria Ramsay tells him plainly that she is not there. Her answer overturns the picture he has been given and leaves him without the sister he has travelled to retrieve.

The next explanation is more startling: Maria tells Andrew that Glynis fell in love with Vlad, accepted his proposal, and has been his wife for nearly a month. The marriage is not merely a personal development. Glynis is living within the household of the man who controls her, while Andrew has understood the journey as a means of bringing a vulnerable sister home. He immediately insists on going to Vlad’s residence. His decision makes the reunion a confrontation with the consequences of Vlad’s concealment as well as a family encounter.

A Reunion Behind the Veil

Vlad has prepared for Andrew’s arrival by ordering special veils to conceal Glynis’s altered beauty. He also instructs her not to take any dress, jewellery, or other possession that Andrew might recognize, because he has told Andrew that her belongings were lost in an accident. Instead, Glynis is to wear dresses her mother bought in Paris and jewels belonging to Erzsébet Dolingen. The instructions turn clothing into part of the false account: what Glynis wears must support Vlad’s story and disguise the continuity between the sister Andrew remembers and the vampire standing before him.

The veil makes that concealment tangible. Glynis is irritated by the heavy lace and organza and understands that she will not truly see Andrew through it. Her frustration is not only about discomfort: the garment obstructs the reunion she has been anticipating and places Vlad’s orders between her and her family. When Andrew arrives, however, the encounter is immediate. He runs down the steps toward her, and she throws herself into his arms. He kisses her cheek through the veil and holds her so tightly that the embrace briefly becomes a shelter from the life enclosing her.

The Family Bond Restored

Andrew repeats Glynis’s name as he clutches her, while she answers through tears. In her account, the embrace makes the surrounding world fall away. She feels her brother’s love warming her soul and, for an instant, experiences her father, mother, and May as present with them. The family that has been destroyed and dispersed seems briefly whole again. This is a powerful contrast with the vampire household: there, Glynis is called a bride and subordinated to Vlad’s commands; in Andrew’s arms, she is recognized as his sister and as someone still connected to her former family.

Andrew says that he has come to bring her home. Glynis responds that she wants to go home, making her longing explicit at the moment when reunion seems to offer a way out. But the exchange establishes their desire, not a completed escape. The veil remains between them, and Vlad’s control has shaped the circumstances of their meeting. The scene allows Glynis to speak the wish she has been forced to conceal without showing that the wish can yet be fulfilled.

A Possible Home Beyond Buda

Andrew tells Glynis that Angeline is waiting for them, along with their baby, John. He says that the child has the same shade of red hair as Glynis and that he and Angeline named him John Andrew Glenn, using Glenn in honour of Glynis. The news extends the reunion beyond the recovered sibling bond: a new generation of the family has been given a place for her, although she has not seen the child and remains in Buda.

The encounter therefore gathers several forms of separation into one embrace. Glynis is separated from her former life by her transformation, from Andrew by Vlad’s managed accounts and enforced disguise, and from the home she longs to return to by her present confinement. Andrew’s arrival does not erase those divisions, but his embrace and the child named for her make the family connection unmistakable. The reunion’s emotional force lies in that brief restoration—and in the distance still separating the promise of home from its realization.