He'd offered to go with her, but she'd insisted she had plans for a special dinner and wanted to surprise him.

No one expected me to do anything and I wanted to surprise some people.

That's good, because I want to surprise the whole world when they see it.

Yes, but you see, I want to surprise him with something, a gift!

In fact, most of the time, you don't want to surprise people.

"I guess he just wanted to surprise us," she said.

She'll probably want to surprise me with my son when I get home.

"We want to surprise the children with art where they might not expect it."

She smiled and said, "I just wanted to surprise your dad."

Even though they had talked about marriage often, he still wanted to surprise her with the actual question.