ineffable nuances

"What if I have amnesia or something? I really can't remember who I was." She was desperate.

"I don't know, Filha." My father placed a glass of water on the table next to me. "The older I get, the less sure I am of anything." He kissed the top of my head and went inside.

"I'll not believe it," Barnaby Sheen said sourly. "It isn't scientific."

"Everything vanished in the darkness as if it had never existed."

…he promised himself the satisfaction of walking home beneath the Arch of Constantine and past the vaguely-lighted monuments of the Forum. There was a waning moon in the sky, and her radiance was not brilliant, but she was veiled in a thin cloud-curtain which seemed to diffuse and equalise it.