As nervous as Alfred is...he just can't stop smiling. He can't quite believe this is happening, that he's here, that he feels like this and it isn't all some dream he's going to wake up from in the morning. It's real. It's all real, and he's about to make the commitment to it.

He swallows hard, trying to shake off some nerves.

"Oh - of course, Engel. I owe you, still, from what we didn't do last year." The smile falters, just a little - he still feels badly about all that, as far behind them as it is now.