I can remove the mat if it isn't to your liking.

[... which would mean she would fall right back into the portal, but details. He may have made this comment for exactly that reason.]

You didn't seem to be in any sort of danger while you were falling, as awkward as it may have been. Although I presume it taught you a few things about trying to open transfer gates.

[Since that's what he assumes she was attempting to do there.]