“It’s a pity that you fell when you were waltzing with her.”
“I did it on purpose; it’s a stratagem I invented, to make a woman become attached to me!”
“Why? because you throw her down while waltzing?”
“To be sure; when she feels herself falling, she clutches me, she clings to me, and squeezes me as tight as she can! Do you understand, young man, what intimate relations that brings about between us?”
“To be sure, that’s true.”
“Just try it, my dear fellow; take my advice, ask a lady to waltz, then fall with her; and tell me what you think of it.”
“Shall I fall underneath or on top?”
“Underneath is more polite; but on top is more rakish.”
“I will remember that; and at the first ball I go to, if I see a lady who takes my eye, I will ask her to waltz.”
“The rest will go all alone!”