As soon as that meal was over, Peter said, “Now will you teach me waltzing again?”
“No.”
“Why not?”
“I’m not going to spend time teaching a man to dance, who doesn’t dance.”
“I was nearly wild to dance last night,” said Peter.
“Then why didn’t you?”
“Dorothy asked me to do something.”
“I don’t think much of men who let women control them.”
“I wanted to please Dorothy” said Peter, “I was as well off talking to one girl as to another. Since you don’t like my dancing, I supposed you would hardly choose to dance again with me, or ropes wouldn’t have held me.”
“I can talk Italian too,” said Leonore, with no apparent connection.