Are you suggesting that is isn't unusual for people to fly around SE NIght VFR with pax on?? Surely you can't be serious.......
An even lonelier place would be the court room after you had an emergency at night in a single engine aircraft with pax on board trying to explain your decisions to a judge. If the sun sets you stay where you are. If you have told your pax what time they need to be back and they don't make it that's their problem not yours.