When Abraham came to the cave of Machpelah to bury Sarah, he did not find the cave empty. According to the Yalkut Chadash, the first couple was already there, and they were not pleased to have company.
Adam and Eve rose from their grave and blocked the way. We are ashamed every day in the presence of the Holy One on account of the sin we committed, they said. Now you come to add to our shame by burying beside us a woman whose good works will stand against our failures. The righteous make the unrighteous look worse simply by lying next to them.
Abraham answered that he would intercede with God so that the first couple should no longer carry the weight of that old shame. On that assurance, Adam withdrew immediately to his tomb and lay down again. But Eve refused to return. She stood there in the mouth of the cave, unwilling. Abraham took her gently by the hand and led her back to Adam's side, and only then did he bury Sarah.
This strange little scene, preserved by Yalkut Chadash and cited in Harris's 1901 anthology of Hebraic Literature, is doing something beautiful. It says that the cave of Machpelah is not a cemetery but a council. Generations meet there. The shame of the first couple is not dismissed, it is actually addressed, and then Sarah joins them as a neighbor. Also, notice who takes Eve's hand. Not Adam. Not an angel. Abraham. The patriarch comforts the first mother, and only then does he lay his own wife to rest.