Disgraced Neighbor

My neighbors are Eastern Orthodox Christians, and their church is old school as my late father use to say. Very strict in their beliefs, but it didn't worry me they were very good neighbors and didn't try to push their religion on me. I'm not into religions of any sort and since my father passed away in 2023 heart attack at the age of 54, I've lived alone. My mother died of cancer in 2017 when I was 22, I'm financially well off and have a great job/career to top it all off. My neighbors have a daughter who is 21 now, anyway earlier this some clowns mucking about on the motorbikes saw her walking home. As is usual for unmarried women she was wearing her head scarf covered head to toe, only hands and face were uncovered. The clowns seeing her walking along decided to steal her head scarf as a prank not knowing taking it would shame her in the eyes of her religion and family. Having your head uncovered in public is like saying I'm a whore, she was totally disgraced. Even those they returned her scarf after a minute or two it was far too late; the damage was done. No respecting man in their religion would marry her, ashamed and now nobody would marry her. I always got on very well with the whole family and was treated as a good friend. Not on the family radar as a possible husband for their daughter, they seemed to marry just inside their church's members. Usually someone was chosen as a possible husband either locally or from other church areas. Like the old saying "bad news travels faster than good news". I was having dinner with family the evening of the day it happened; the main topic was the utter disgrace of the daughter. I wasn't worried about her losing her head scarf, but stayed quiet not trying to push my view it was just a silly prank nothing to worry about. But as their conversation got around about her not being able to marry as respectable man would want her. I said I would marry her, more trying to suggest they were worrying about nothing really, without actually saying it. It was taken as a proposal by the mother, grasping at straws as they say. The father looked at me for a long moment and asked me straight out would I really marry her. Realizing I couldn't retreat from statement I said Yes, I would, not expecting them to accept. But they did the daughter looked at me and smiled but said nothing. Her father said They will marry as soon as it can be arranged. I was caught in shock but not upset, I went to dinner came home engaged. The next day I thought it would blow over after about a week and they would change their minds. A week later we were married, I'd gone from dating every now and then to being actually married. I hadn't even thought of the daughter as a possible girlfriend mainly because of the strict beliefs. Never thought they would see me as an acceptable husband. I was wrong but I also believe I came out on top as they say, I've a great wife who believes in making her husband happy. We married in early June, and I got my wife pregnant confirmed by August. So, I went from living alone to being married and now waiting for my son to be born, without even trying. Only other change was the fence between our yards was removed, it needed replacing but as we were all family now, it was just removed. Also, instead of dinner once a week with my neighbors, it nightly with my new family. After the wedding I've always felt happy and lucky and have no regrets.