I found this buried deeply in the text:
"What follows is the usual happy ending movie proposal; tears, kisses, everything you would expect. I don’t need to go into details. The bottom line is it worked; she said YES! She was so caught off guard by how I did it she couldn’t stop laughing for a long time after."
As I recall, I was much more clumsy and not at all creative when I "popped the question" 59 years ago. But it worked!
I wish them well.