I write this afternoon from the airport in Charleston, S.C., where I have just become engaged to this lovely young woman (in Charleston, not in the airport):

(pictured here on the phone with my mother Friday night, right after it happened)

I’m not sure how many proposals have started out: "Well, I guess you can see where this is going…"

But add one more to the list.

UPDATE: After the jump, read the NY Sun’s gossip item.

The Knickerbocker received this report on Saturday:

SUN ENGAGEMENT
By R.H. SAGER and E.F. GITTER
Special to the Sun

CHARLESTON, S.C. — A former New York Sun editorial features editor, R.H. Sager and a former Sun features editor Emily Gitter were engaged to be married yesterday evening, at approximately 6:30 p.m.

Present at the proposal were a horse named Elvis and Whitney, his driver, a resident of Charleston.

Mr. Sager and Ms. Gitter met in the newsroom of the New York Sun.

The union is a first for the Sun, the nation’s fastest growing daily newspaper.

“I couldn’t be happier,” Mr. Sager told the Sun, reached for comment in Charleston. He added: “Though she probably could have done better.”

Elvis declined to comment.