(02-15-2021, 10:13 PM)Pearl Carrington Wrote: "Then it is settled. I was hoping you'd say yes," she said, lowering her lashes and blushing still. It had been months since she'd talked to someone like this, and she found herself liking it more with him than before. Her mouth curled up into a soft smile again and she looked at him for a long moment before speaking again, "I am glad."

He felt honoured that she would darn his handkerchief with his initials.  He looked down at it again and smiled.  Joe was still smiling when he looked up and his gaze met hers again as she spoke.  He held it for a long moment, before action seized his brain.

"This might be a tad forward, but an old friend o' mine is to be married Saturday and I 'ave been invited. Would you do me the pleasure of accompanying?"