Agatha paused, startled, with her toes just over the edge of a precipice, and simply stared straight ahead - or down?

A firm hand wrapped into the back of her dress and yanked her precipitately back, and she landed on Maxim as he collapsed from the force of the pull, but scrambled almost immediately back to her feet, stomping one foot and gesturing through the open doorway.

"An apparently bottomless abyss? Really? In the basement?" Agatha demanded, scowling.