Possible Clues:

• Scared of a noisy attack
• A fellow before robbery's nervous
• Fearful? of stream-of-consciousness writer? Surely not George and Martha
• Nervous
• Direly anxious if a priest needs help
• Frightened by note about assault
• Fearful and timid
• Hearing of a fight'd make one nervous
• A loud attack makes one panicky
• A foe's initial attack may make one scared