[Merri]

Several hours later, the dishes had all been cleared, washed, and put away, and Frodo and Elanor were walking back up to Bag End. She didn't want the evening to end, because she always had enjoyed spending time with Frodo, but at the same time, she needed to get to the cemetery to meet with the other hobbit children.

He commented off-handedly on how it seemed that Bilbo was trying to get him out of the way, and that he found it curious.

"Oh!" Elanor exclaimed, immediately alarmed. He couldn't have caught on to anything, could he have? She wondered, reviewing in her head everything she'd said that night. "Oh, well, you know he's been busy recently."

At last they came to the round green door, and Frodo smiled at her, and thanked her for inviting him to dinner. She smiled back, and once they had said goodnight and he'd gone inside, she fairly ran down to the cemetery, hoping against hope that she hadn't missed anything.