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Caroline wrote: |
The "proposal scene" - you know, I've never thought of the whole solid lump of comfort thing as the actual proposal. I had assumed Jack popped the question properly later on... I don't mind it, anyway - it's almost iconic by now. |
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Jo turned to him. ‘Jack! Do you think Austria’s in for a bad time?’
Instead of replying, Jo turned to the doctor. ‘What about it, Jack?’ ‘Those beauties will have to come out into the open now,’ she said. ‘There’s no cover anywhere. Round this boulder, Jack. Now give me your hand. Then when I’m up, you can give the others a boost.’... ‘Jack!’ she cried, and her beautiful voice was hoarse with fear. ‘I’ve been to the cave, and they aren’t there! There isn’t a sign of them anywhere. But that little Nazi beast was there, and I shook it out of him that he had seen them go in. I told him to come with me — here he is,’ she added, as the doctor slipped an arm round her to steady her, for she was shaking with fear. ‘Beat the truth out of him if you must!’ ‘Jack! What does it mean? Have they gone? Or have they never been there?’ and ‘Then — then — oh, where are Robin and Hilary? Jack, I can’t bear it!’ |
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‘It isn’t,’ insisted the Robin, who had begged to be allowed to be the one to tell Grizel Cochrane and Juliet Carrick, now Juliet O’Hara. ‘That night we had the picnic up the Sonnenscheinspitze they were engaged; but Joey asked us not to tell anyone till after the holidays, as Juliet’s wedding was coming, and she did not want to spoil the excitement for her. But they really have been engaged for nearly four weeks. Jack gave her her ring the day the School broke up. She would not have it before, lest anyone should see it and guess.’ |
KB wrote: | ||
And then later we are told this, which confirms it:
Admittedly it may have been another picnic, but that doesn't seem likely. Can't imagine Madge letting them go again considering what happened in that adventurous picnic! However those two things together suggest that they were already very much engaged by that point. |
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I was disappointed that their wedding wasn’t shown since Jo is the central character of the series and still am not sure why it wasn’t. Did EBD feel unable to write it? |
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