Were they engaged?
Yes, and no.

By all the speech their eyes were capable of in school, and of late by words, they were engaged in loving one another, and in telling one another of it.

But they were young, and separated by circumstances, and they had hardly begun to think of marriage yet.

It was enough for the present to love and be loved.

The most delightful stage of a love affair is that in which the present is sufficient and there is no past or future.