Of Hearts, Flowers and Screen Spells: Try saying it with flowers and by going down on one knee like Grand Uncle Jimmy Johnson to Grand-aunt Geraldine Periera, circa 1958. The proposal took place at her doorstep off Fraser Road, Patna with a cricket-playing lot of goggle-eyed school boys cheering him on; she said yes, just as formally - and made him the Anglo-Indian community's local celebrity!