Every moment her light was growing fainter; and he knew that if it went out she would be no more.

Those moments, while still rare, were growing more frequent.

Slowly, feeling the moment grow within him, he said, 'The snow's gone; no-one will track us now that way.

Every moment she hesitated, however, the battle grew more desperate.

His smile answered hers, and as the moment grew long, she felt the need to abort the contact.

But the moment to Stern grew more intimate than an embrace.

But then, as the moment of introduction grew nearer, from across the country the people came.

When a newly independent art paints its world in brilliant colors, then a moment of life has grown old.

The moment grew longer and then the sign was turned off.

She let a moment of silence grow between them, then finished, "So why don't you seem happy?"