without particularly noting the passage of either time or space she found herself in the hard-caverns and was just beginning to wonder if she had really delayed all she safely could and whether she might not turn home now and face the inevitable annoyance of tritt when - almost as though the thought of tritt had brought it about - she sensed tritt the sensation was so strong that there was only one confused moment in which she had thought that somehow she was picking up his feelings far away in the home cavern .