What spectacle confronted them when they, first the host, then the guest, emerged silently, doubly dark, from obscurity by apassage from the rere of the house into the penumbra of the garden?
She leaned forward over the sink, unexpectedly dizzy, taking her weight on her arms, and staring down into the darkpassage of the drain, understanding it for a few seconds as if it opened a way out of the world, or into it.