One of the many benefits of being together with the Dark One: he actually saw this coming, and in the interests of playing the rescuer and catching her in a moment where he could make her happy, he's meeting her halfway to the house. He might have made it sooner, but he doesn't really walk very fast. Still, better a little late than never, and he comes out of seeming nowhere at her side with an umbrella open to take the place of that poor newspaper.

"Did we forget something at home, dearie?" he asks dryly-- in more ways than one, since he's been using said umbrella during his trek out to meet her-- but affectionately.