I said

I didn't see, exactly. When she came over and started talking him down, she sent me for tea: 'Grim as you can brew it,' she said, 'And if you've got a drop of Sleep Easy, that might stand him well'.

When I came back he was tame as a kitten and a bit unfocused. I'd say she confunded him. No one else seemed the wiser. Of course, everyone had moved away by then and were trying to pretend they couldn't hear any of it.