Said gallant fellow took candle below to prevent them from becoming scared in the dark (10)
I believe the answer is:
nightlight
'said gallant fellow took candle below to prevent them from becoming scared in' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'dark' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'dark' could be 'night' (it's dark at nighttime) and 'night' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'light' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'the' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for nightlight that I've seen is " may alleviate fear of the dark".)