[spoilers] Harry and Ruth Strike Back

[Silktie]

I can certainly understand her saying no. Proposing at a funeral isn't the smartest idea Harry has ever had. What I'm questioning is why she would settle for purely work-related interaction with the man she obviously still loves, despite everything. She doesn't have to marry him to have a meaningful relationship away from work with him. I mean, after saying no, she spends the rest of the episode bucking him up and being there for him.

To me it just feels as though the writers were wondering how they could freeze the HR relationship in time, without everyone moaning that another season of longing looks is just more of the same, and came up with this.