By now, flames were bursting violently from all over the ruins, so dangerously that Adam caught up his wife in his arms, and ran with her from the proximity of the flames.
Then almost as quickly as it had begun, the whole cataclysm ceased, though a deep-down rumbling continued intermittently for some time.

Then silence brooded over all--silence so complete that it seemed in itself a sentient thing--silence which seemed like incarnate darkness, and conveyed the same idea to all who came within its radius.

To the young people who had suffered the long horror of that awful night, it brought relief--relief from the presence or the fear of all that was horrible--relief which seemed perfected when the red rays of sunrise shot up over the far eastern sea, bringing a promise of a new order of things with the coming day.
* * * * * His bed saw little of Adam Salton for the remainder of that night.

He and Mimi walked hand in hand in the brightening dawn round by the Brow to Castra Regis and on to Lesser Hill.

They did so deliberately, in an attempt to think as little as possible of the terrible experiences of the night.