——“Oh! I don’t know what I say. Yes, as I was remarking, you waltz beautifully ... only....”
——“Only....”
——“Only you go too fast.”
——“Too fast! How can that be? The waltz should be rapid, giddy.”
——“Oh! you silly! Ahem! I mean to say, you are wrong.”
——“Explain yourself, sweet one.”
——“Well then, I mean that I like a waltz to be slow, dreamy, sad, almost dying away; I should like them composed entirely of the kind of airs they generally begin with—slow and solemn.”
——“What!” I exclaimed, “you don’t like the intoxicating kind of waltz?”
——“You know nothing about it,” replied she cunningly.
——“I tell you I am an inveterate waltzer.”