Deliberately ambiguous as to how dark it is or isn't.

He would be gone before her husband even knew what had happened. He took just the clothes he wanted, which weren't much. It seems she didn't like sexier clothes very much and only had a handful of them in her closet and dresser, but what she did have he loaded into a single suitcase and proceeded to wheel out the front door of the house.

Too bad that her husband would never know what had happened to her, but it was ultimately better this way. Her husband almost certainly didn't want to actually know the truth. No, better to leave him in the dark.