Respuesta :

In "A Shocking Accident", when it was neither too early nor too late, Jerome "Became engaged". This is a common theme in many stories like this since life is short. 

Answer:

Became engaged

Explanation:

The part of the story where this happen is this one “In course of time, neither too early nor too late, rather as though, in his capacity as a chartered accountant, Jerome had studied the statistics and taken the average, he became engaged to be married”, the narrator describe how Jerome became engaged just in time, it seems that he calculated the perfect time to get engage.