They returned to the tent and focussed there in anguish.

Think of it, the past is not only focussed there, in a man's soul, it IS there.

Her neck, where her hair grew in wisps behind her ear, seemed to burn: Ditmar's glance was focussed there.

We see focussed there in Paris all the motives that have ever entered into human history and all the ideals that have influenced human affairs.