And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said, “How did you fare, my daughter?” Then she told her all that the man had done for her,
We are here told, I. How Ruth was dismissed by Boaz. It would not have been safe for her to go home in the dead of the night; therefore she lay at his feet (not by his side) until morning.
Commenting on Ruth 3:14-18
And when she came to her mother in law,.... To Naomi, in Bethlehem: she said, who art thou, my daughter? it being near dusk, she could not discern her, or perhaps she put the question before she opened the door and saw her; though one would think, if Ruth had called to her, she would have known her voice: rather therefore the particle may be...
And when she came to her mother in law, she said, Who [art] thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her. (f) Believing by her returning home that he had not taken her as his wife, she was astonished.