He couldn't wait to hear that exchange. Could not wait. Shots would be fired within the declared rules of polite women society. Couldn't wait to make Maggie laugh like that again either. God, was he really gonna get to make her smile for the rest of his life? A less hopeful or bitter man would have focused on all the failures of Raylan's love life, but despite those failures, Raylan couldn't stop hoping. Couldn't stop trying, hoping for a reward like this. A shot.

"We're doing this," he reaffirms with a little lift of his eyebrows. "I'm not afraid or hesitant or anythin' else about the possibility of gettin' to build a life with you, Magdalene Garcia. Whatever that looks like, I want it." He fight for it, he'd bend for it, he would do whatever was in his power to make it happen.

"I love you, Mags. If there's a chance.. I want to take it."