Proposed Remarks

"I was going to say surprisingly romantic," she said.

"I'll accept surprisingly romantic," he said.

She kissed him. The real kind. When she broke apart she was laughing, slightly, the warm kind.

"The dinner," he said. "I had a plan. The terrace, the good bottle—"

"Better than this?" she said.

"I had notes," he said.

"You had notes for the proposal."

"Four points," he said. "They were good points."