Possible Clues:

• Gave a goofball
• Put under?
• Comatose on the settee, perhaps, taking in 'Howard's End'
• Under, in the OR
• Tranquillized
• Calmed down, being outwardly sensible and old-fashioned
• Out
• Fully satisfied with journalist being tranquillised
• Given a tranquilliser
• Daughter's sitting around under the influence of drugs