We have entered into a contract of mutual agreeableness for the space of an evening, and all our agreeableness belongs solely to each other for that time.

Nobody can fasten themselves on the notice of one, without injuring the rights of the other.
I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage.

Fidelity and complaisance are the principal duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or marry themselves, have no business with the partners or wives of their neighbours." "But they are such very different things!" "-- That you think they cannot be compared together." "To be sure not.

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together.

People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour." "And such is your definition of matrimony and dancing.