Miranda has a lovely summer, some of it spent at Karen's and some in Italy and some at home.
She shows up with Karen at the train platform and they look for Minor.
"It's very sweet of you if you prefer to wait till I'm especially delighted about it," she assures him, "I wouldn't dream of complaining, but we're married and if you want me you can have me."
"It's not just preferring to wait until you want to, it's preferring you know I'll stop if you ask -"
"Hopefully someday you will have more reason to feel that way than 'rich and not a rapist'!" Kiss.
"You're also handsome and you're looking after Catherine and you sing like an angel!" she says.
Snuggle. "And you are very practical and very resourceful and know your own reasons for things and play well and sing well and adapt to new circumstances and were already thinking how to run a magic household well and get adorably charmed at things and are very patient with my family -"
What a good idea.
But he's carefuler that she's excited about it and will pull away if he's not certain, after that.
Oh good.
He does commissioned enchantment work and practices wandwork with Timothy and tries magic music boxes - he can easily make ones that don't need winding, but anything more useful than that is slow progress.