The house had been too empty without Ceana. Bertie hadn't expected her absence to be so visible, so startling. When his co-workers asked how he'd fared during the blackout, Bertie had answered "My wife is missing" without even pondering when he'd begun to honestly think of Ceana as his wife.
He had more or less sprinted from the moment he got off the actual subway until he reached the Subway Ceana was eating in. He was not in sprinting shape, so he was panting quite badly by the time he got there. But none of that mattered when he saw that Ceana was actually here and alive.