V--2nd how about that ending, eh?

[Mark Kohut]

Since the next chapter is an Epilogue.....(now always making me think
first of one of the more subtly famous epilogues pointed to by TRP, that
for 1984)....

This is the end.............

"Presently, sudden and in silence, all illumination in Valletta, houselight and 
streetlight, was
extinguished. Profane and Brenda ["whom he'd met yesterday"] continued to run 
through
the abruptly absolute night, momentum alone carrying them toward the edge of 
Malta,
and the Mediterranean beyond."

Real Sound of Music, eh, he sez sarcastically. Thoughts?