You have a real gift for understatement.

[ he says it half-jokingly, looking up at her with the lopsided smile he gets sometimes, especially when he's feeling distinctly uncomfortable.

some people might see this as one time when you should suck it up and swallow your pride and lower yourself to asking for a hand, but john is not one of them. ]

I know you didn't come down here looking for me, so I must not be the only one. I guess the ants weren't discriminating on faction.