In a perfectly matter-of-fact manner she was informing him that her search for him had not been abandoned until Baron Dangloss received a telegram from Paris, stating that King was in a hospital there, recovering from a wound in the head.
"You can imagine what I thought when I saw you here a little while, ago," she said, again looking hard at his face as if to make sure.

"We had looked everywhere for you.

You see, I was ashamed.

That man from Cook's told us that you were hurt by--by the way I treated you the day before you disappeared, and--well, he said you talked very foolishly about it." He drew a long breath.

Somehow he was happier than he had been before.
"Hobbs is a dreadful ass," he managed to say.
It seems that the ministry was curiously disturbed by the events attending the disappearance of the Countess Ingomede.