"It's real dark.

She felt it, I know.

She looked real sober.

Run after her, quick, Jerome." "When she came to invite you to a party, too!" said Mrs.Edwards, but Jerome did not hear that, he was out of the house and hurrying up the road after Lucina.
She had not gone far.

Jerome did not know what to say when he overtook her, so he said nothing--he merely walked along by her side.
A great anger at himself, that he had almost let this tender and beautiful creature go out alone in the night and the dark, was over him, but he knew not what to say for excuse.
He wondered, pitifully, if she were so indignant that she did not like him to walk home with her now.