Easy, just pretend to tie your shoe right before you propose! Or go down on both knees so it’s done with a shinui.
Heh.
When Eeees and I were dating, I was standing in her kitchen one day while she was looking in the refrigerator for something. I told her I needed to ask her something. At the same time, I had got down on one knee… to tie my shoe. She turned around and thought I was going to propose to her… something I had no intention of doing at that time. It did not occur to me that she might even think that — until afterwards, of course.
(Not that it really mattered — we both knew at that point that it wasn’t a question of “if” we were going to get married, but “when.”)
When I did propose, I did not get down on one knee.
The Wolf