Robin said he would walk home with her.
"No, Robin, I would rather you did not to-night," she replied.

"I have two or three things to get at Mother Duff's, and I shall stop there a bit, gossiping.

After that, I shall be home in a trice.

It's not dark; and, if it were, who'd harm me ?" They laughed.

To imagine harm of any sort occurring, through walking a mile or so alone at night, would never enter the head of honest country people.