He can't help but worry, even knowing that there's nothing at stake and nothing to worry about. Cupping a hand over Aramis' cheek, he feels compelled to want to enjoy this warmth and their marriage, looking at his ring against Aramis' skin. "If I'd have said no, it would've just been because you'd thought to drag me out on a boat," he teases, "and done it in public. Shame of it is, I adored that," he says, given that praise and glory are his favourite things.

"How would you have wanted to be proposed to, if I was meant to get around to it?"