He reached over and pulled the chain on the bedside lamp . The room went dark . " All right ," hesaid . He lay there , but nothing happened . " All right ," he said again . Then he heard a movement across the room . He sat up , but he couldn't see a thing . The room was silent . His heartpounded the way it had on their first night together , the way it still did when he woke at a noisein the darkness and waited to hear again — the sound of someone moving through the house , astranger .