If only because the subject isn't one that they've discussed before, it takes Karen a moment to parse what he's saying and make sure that she's right about it. Something like this, she doesn't want to take too flippantly, and it would be more than a little awkward, albeit fine, if she misunderstood. Whether it's the family they're watching or the ring display she found herself looking at with a stranger a while ago or just something in her head that's been dormant until recently, though, it isn't as surprising as it could be. She doesn't necessarily know if she would have thought that he would want that, but the subject was probably going to come up sooner or later. It might as well be now, and like this.

"I think we've both had pretty good reasons to think it wasn't meant for us," she says with a small, knowing smile. Glancing towards the newly engaged couple not too far away, the two of them still seemingly oblivious to everyone else nearby, she adds, "But I kind of like the idea of it. Having... that."

One corner of her mouth curls up a little higher. "Plenty of people here already think we're married anyway."