Alfred's grin widened. She was following, then, which meant she was starting to piece it together. "Yeah," he agreed, stepping onto the little boat and moving back towards her and offering a hand to help her across. "But, you know, a trip like that, it'd take weeks to do it properly. Your father would never agree to it," he said, but he was smiling wide and mischievous, as though this were the set up to a joke rather than a real obstacle. With his eyes meeting hers, Alfred continued very deliberately, "— we'd have to get married first."
MJ made the most Alfredy of sets and then two years later she made it EVEN BETTER