For the time being, at least, she was safe.

She hung there for a few minutes till she had fully recovered her breath.
Below the leopards were still leaping and striking futilely! and even in her terror she could not but admire their grace and beauty.

And, oddly, she recalled the pet at home.

Doubtless by this time he had fallen back into his savage state.
When she dared risk it she gained a securer position on the wall and sat up, flinging her legs over the side of it.

She saw things in a bit of blur at first, her heart had been called upon so strenuously; but after a little objects resumed their real shapes, and she espied the two elephants.