You frightened me out of my wits.

I thought you were drowned." "Thank you, Honoria," he said faintly, and then groaned as a fresh attack of tingling pain shook him through and through.
"I hope nobody said anything to Effie," Geoffrey said presently.
"Yes, the child would not go to bed because you were not back, and when the policeman came she heard him tell Mrs.Jones that you were drowned, and she has been almost in a fit ever since.

They had to hold her to prevent her from running here." Geoffrey's white face assumed an air of the deepest distress.

"How could you frighten the child so ?" he murmured.

"Please go and tell her that I am all right." "It was not my fault," said Lady Honoria with a shrug of her shapely shoulders.