He came awake with the insistent urging to get up and take a leak. Half asleep and holding on to the image of the ladies that lolled on his bed, he inadvertantly stumbled over his slippers and banged his knee on the desk in the dark.

She woke with a slight cry of "Oh!" but it sounded a bit throaty and breathless to him and he wondered if she was still in a dream. He tiptoed from there to the bathroom feeling bad about waking her up. Worse though, about what he'd been doing, although it was, of course, just a dream.

She sank back into retreat, saw the mountains outside in glorious sunset, heard the muted thunderous roar of the water over the falls.