Feeling better now?
Like to sit up ?" She awoke to the fact that she was propped against his knee.

She sat up, still gasping a little, but shrank as she realized the narrowness of the ledge upon which she was resting.
He thrust out a protecting arm in front of her.

"It's all right.

You're absolutely safe.

Don't shiver like that! You couldn't go over if you tried.