BREAKING POINT
"But we can celebrate. I'm supposed to have dinner with my dad tonight. Might as well get his approval anyway, although I have no doubt that he will be thrilled. He likes you, Penny. We will all go out for dinner. Penny....?"
"Yes, Jeremy?"
"I love you so much, amazingly, frighteningly much" he said.
Penny's last doubt vanished. Now at last, she had made up her mind.
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"I couldn't be more delighted" said Mr Gilbert, his kind blue eyes so amazingly like his son's meeting Penny's expectant gaze. "It's high time that over grown school boy of mine found himself a nice girl to steady himself a bit"
"Now, dad...." Jeremy began, but Mr Gilbert interrupted, his eyes twinkling.