The Fire Within

And then all at once they were in the dark together, for the moon went out suddenly like a blown candle. She had dropped into a bank of clouds that rose from the clouding west. The wind blew a little chill, and as suddenly as the light had gone, David, too, was gone. One moment, so near--touching her in the darkness--and the next, gone--gone noiselessly, leaving her shaking, quivering.