KNOWLE. Has she left us for ever?
JANE. There's nothing to be frightened about really.
MR. KNOWLE. I'm not frightened.
JANE. She had breakfast before any of us were up, and went out with
some sandwiches afterwards, and she hasn't come back yet.
MR. KNOWLE. A very healthy way of spending the day. (MRS. KNOWLE comes
in) Well, Mary, I hear that we have no daughter now.
MRS. KNOWLE. Ah, there you are, Henry. Thank Heaven that _you_ are
back safely.
MR. KNOWLE. My dear, I always meant to come back safely. Didn't you
expect me?
MRS. KNOWLE. I had given up hope. Jane here will tell you what a
terrible morning I have had; prostrate on the sofa, mourning for my
loved ones. My only child torn from me, my husband--dead.
MR. KNOWLE (surprised). Oh, I was dead?
MRS. KNOWLE. I pictured the car smashed to atoms, and you lying in the
road, dead, with Peters by your side.
MR. KNOWLE. Ah! How was Peters?
MRS. KNOWLE (with a shrug). I didn't look. What is a chauffeur to one
who has lost her husband and her only child in the same morning?
MR. KNOWLE. Still, I think you might have looked.
JANE. Sandy's all right, Aunt Mary. You know she often goes out alone
all day like this.
MRS. KNOWLE.
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