Chapter 52 Canceled Engagement?

A couple of days back before I went to Alexandrine’s house to see her—----------

Since returning home after that day in the hospital, Tina has been pestering me about our engagement. She would ask me questions like, “ When are we going to choose a date for our engagement? Or, are we ever getting engaged at all?”

I was pestered almost every day by the same seemingly questions that one day, I decided on a whim, “ Let’s get engaged two weeks from now!”

“ Johnson, you’re the best,” I remembered how happy that made her that she started right away to make preparations for it. Whenever she had the chance, she would want to take part as in the end, it was our engagement we were talking about, so why should I be excluded from it at all?

“ Johnson, what do you think of these pieces of jewelry?” She showed me the jewelry that caught her fancy and would ask me with a bright grin in the corner of her lips, “ Do you like them, Johnson?”

“ Yes, I love them very much, Tina. They look good on you.” I