On cue, the curtain lifted and a hush fell over the audience.
When the curtain lifted again, the two were in bed, having evidently completed a scene Esk wished he could have watched.
For as the curtain swelled and lifted over the open window, all the freshness of a midsummer night seemed to be blowing into the room.
Slowly, the red curtain lifted and he saw Jordan's inert body before him.
The sparks died away; the curtain which had seemed to fall over the tunnel lifted.
Then Kyros saw the curtain lifted and pulled back slightly.
The curtain of gray lifted, folding away toward the south and leaving a sky of pale blue behind.
A curtain lifted on a stage that had not been evident before.
Finally the curtain had lifted from his mind, but he had to give Hastings the credit for it.
It was as if a curtain had lifted.