"All right, all right, it all went quite over my head, I admit to that."

This is a lot to take in, the shift from existential terror to wait am I engaged now. It would be more terrifying, perhaps, but he's done this part before.

"... I suppose it was for the best that neither Mary nor I had much in the way of family or friends. Not much of a wedding, perhaps, but it suited us. Good heavens, we really aren't going to be able to escape having a ship-wide party, are we? I'm really not much for excessive pomp and circumstance, you know."