His clawing at the tree ended when her window opened and she had settled upon the porch. He seemed to have poised to leave until she sat and decided to further movement. His head leaned slowly to one side and then to the other. He seemed to watch her with a level of great curiosity and frustration. When she requested he speak, the roars in her head only became increasingly deafening. there was obviously an event or effect he was meant to have that was not occurring, the lack of this event only increasing his frustration.