Margaret Tate : Andrew. Andrew Paxton : Yes, Margaret. Margaret Tate : Sweet Andrew. Andrew Paxton : I'm listening. Margaret Tate : Would you please, with cherries on top, marry me? Andrew Paxton : Ok. I don't appreciate the sarcasm, but I'll do it. See you at the airport tomorrow.
Andrew Paxton : I'm not rich. My parents are rich. Margaret Tate : Which is the kind of thing that only a rich person would say. Margaret Tate : I have never farted in front of him. Nor will I ever fart in front of him. Andrew Paxton : She farts in her sleep. Margaret Tate : Why didn't you tell me you were some kind of Alaskan Kennedy? Andrew Paxton : How could I? We were in the middle of talking about you Margaret Tate : OK, know what?
Timeout, OK? This bickering Bickerson thing has got to stop. People need to think that we are in love. So let's just Andrew Paxton : That, hey, that's no problem. I can do that. I can pretend to be the doting fiance. That's easy. But for you, that's going to require that you stop snacking on children while they dream. Andrew Paxton : Don't take this the wrong way. Margaret Tate : OK. Andrew Paxton : [referring to the story about how he proposed to Margaret] You know what?
Actually, Margaret loves telling this story, so I'm just gonna let her go ahead and do that. We should just sit and rapture. Margaret Tate : Wow, okay Well, um, wow Okay, well, um, Andrew and I Andrew and I were about to celebrate our first anniversary together and I knew that he'd been itching to ask me to marry him and he was scared, like a little tiny bird.
So, I started leaving him little hints here and there because I knew he wouldn't have the guts to ask Andrew Paxton : That's not exactly how it happened. Margaret Tate : No? Andrew Paxton : No, no, I mean I picked up on all of her little hints Yeah, no what I was worried about was that she might find this little box Margaret Tate : Oh, the decoupage box that he made, where he'd taken the time to cut out twenty little pictures of himself, just pasted all over the box.
So beautiful! I opened that beautiful little decoupage and out fluttered these tiny little hand cut heart confettis and once they cleared, I looked down and I saw the most beautiful, big Andrew Paxton No ring. Grandma Annie : No ring? Grace Paxton : What? Andrew Paxton : No, but inside that box, underneath all that crap, a handwritten note with the address to a hotel, date and time.
Real Humphrey Bogart type stuff. Naturally, Margaret, she thought Margaret Tate : I thought he was seeing someone else But the door was already unlocked. As I swung open that door, there he was Andrew Paxton : Standing. Margaret Tate : Kneeling. Andrew Paxton : Like a man. Margaret Tate : On a bed of rosebuds, in a tuxedo. Your son. Your son And when he held back the tears and finally caught his breath, he said to me Andrew Paxton : 'Margaret, will you marry me?
Andrew Paxton : [on the phone with his mom on why he can't come home for the weekend] I know. There they are! The definition of the idiom "to cut it close" is: to allow barely enough of something, often time, for what has to be done.
In standard written English there is no contraction for the past form DID, but in conversational English sometimes we contract it to D'. The present form DO can also be contracted to D', so only the context tells which tense we are using. The beginning and end phrases "it's not like" and "or something" both are ways of making the sentence less precise, as if the word "immigrant" is not the perfect word in this case or she's not very sure about it.
LIKE here is a preposition of comparison. She's from Canada and lives in the USA, so of course she's an immigrant, but both societies are so similar in everything that she doesn't feel like an immigrant. Maybe that's why she says she's not an immigrant but, at the same time, she makes the statement so imprecise.
To fix this, Margaret lies by claiming that she's engaged to get married to Andrew and that the two of them are planning on flying out to Alaska for his grandmother's 90th-brithday to tell the rest of his family.
Andrew, of course, vehemently tries backing out of the plan, but Margaret insists that they'll be married for a short while and then get a divorce—Andrew ultimately agrees to it after he makes her promise to publish his book and promote him. The two fly out to Alaska and Margaret meets Andrew's family—over the course of their time in Alaska, the two slowly get to know each better and ultimately end up falling in love for real. Community Showcase More. Follow TV Tropes. You need to login to do this.
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