Seeing her intent upon the occupation, he sinks into his former attitude.
'It was a journey, a difficult and dangerous journey.

That was the subject in my mind.

A hazardous and perilous journey, over abysses where a slip would be destruction.

Look down, look down! You see what lies at the bottom there ?' He has darted forward to say it, and to point at the ground, as though at some imaginary object far beneath.

The woman looks at him, as his spasmodic face approaches close to hers, and not at his pointing.