[ The squeal makes Alice grin; her friend's excitement on her behalf is hardly something for her to complain about, and only serves to make her happier instead. ]

Robin proposed. Apparently she even asked my Papa for permission. And he said yes, obviously, so she took me on a picnic, a place we like to go to, and she'd buried the ring box and made me dig for it... When I found it and turned around, she was on one knee.

[ It's said with an affectionate smile, a gleam in her eye. To someone else, it might sound like a bit of a nightmare. But it was like an adventure in its own way, and Alice does so love an adventure. ]

Anyway, we'll both wear white, but I think her mum would be horrified if we didn't include some kind of green in it, somehow...