"Not at all, I insist," Catherine pressed. She was eager to compensate for her earlier lack of consideration. "I wouldn't like to think that I had sent a young woman like yourself walking back to town alone. There's all sort of bad folk about. Vagrants and beggars and worse. We had a strange man trespassing the other day. We were all quite distressed. Really, you mustn't walk alone. Jared can drop you off on the edge of town."