Thank you. [ Hard to miss the flash of embarrassment, but she appreciates that he doesn't refuse out of some... insistence that he's too old for it. That's nice.

They can start walking off then, though, and once they're out of earshot she adds: ] There was a slight magnetic pull on the ringer. I think it is in place for... an added challenge, perhaps?

So do not feel too bad. If it were fairly set up, you would have won the prize yourself twice over.