This is an important moment because it shows how the old lady is redefining how marriage proposal usually works. It usually the man who requests the women to marry him but in this case it is the old lady who is doing the proposing. She wants to marry the knight just because she helped him. Furthermore, this scene tied into The Wife of Bath herself as she considers the knight in her tale to be the sixth husband which further establish how the old lady is compare to being a version of The Wife of Bath herself.
