Letting her take the spot closest to the fire, Tyb followed her lead and made himself comfortable on the bench, angling his knees and his attentions towards her without moving quite as near as he’d like.
There was something significant on her mind, he could tell, and he picked absently at a loose thread on one of his coat sleeves as she worked up to it. I want to get married this year, Elsie said, as though she had slid the thought right from his mind. Then let’s get married tonight, he could have exclaimed, even at the top of his lungs, but a little more time to work out how to go about this was probably for the best. But she wanted to - really wanted to, not just in the wait-for-the-future way they’d been working at for this long - and, as daunting as the thought would probably be in the daylight, all it felt like now was a triumphant finally.
“Oh, well,” Tyb said, doing his very best not to break out into a grin so bright it would probably start attracting moths, but a teasing gleam in his eye nonetheless, “that’s an excellent resolution. Fingers crossed that you can find a willing gentleman who’ll stick to that schedule for you, anyway.”
There was something significant on her mind, he could tell, and he picked absently at a loose thread on one of his coat sleeves as she worked up to it. I want to get married this year, Elsie said, as though she had slid the thought right from his mind. Then let’s get married tonight, he could have exclaimed, even at the top of his lungs, but a little more time to work out how to go about this was probably for the best. But she wanted to - really wanted to, not just in the wait-for-the-future way they’d been working at for this long - and, as daunting as the thought would probably be in the daylight, all it felt like now was a triumphant finally.
“Oh, well,” Tyb said, doing his very best not to break out into a grin so bright it would probably start attracting moths, but a teasing gleam in his eye nonetheless, “that’s an excellent resolution. Fingers crossed that you can find a willing gentleman who’ll stick to that schedule for you, anyway.”
