Martel endures this flailing with the expression she would probably expect from him, unsurprisingly. "I proposed." There's a beat. "By accident." ...this is not a thing people often do, but there you go, he pulled it off. "She has a ring, the other rings are locked away. Of course you can come, when we've set a date. We're not in a hurry."

To the last comment he says, wryly, "I'm a serious sort of man."