"But I knew scarcely any one there.

I see a good deal of Kate sometimes, but the others I scarcely know at all." "You were in the same position as I was, then," he answered, smiling.
"Oh, you--you are different," she remarked.

"I mean that you are a man, and at a dance that means everything.

That is why I rather dislike dances.

We are too dependent upon you.