She raised an eyebrow, and held a hand out for his phone. Could she navigate, please? He was the city boy, here.

"They were gonna run off together," she said. "And then she'd be Romeo's wife and not her dad's daughter, I mean, legally, so he couldn't be all 'that guy kidnapped her!' or whatever and get the law after them. Besides it was just supposed to be -- you know. Proposing?"

He kept saying it like the word tasted funny. Nice.