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?