You have not got broken into the business yet." "Nor have you, Major Mallett." "No, but while you are an actor in the piece, I am but a spectator, and lookers-on, you know, see most of the game." "What nonsense! Don't pretend you are getting to be a blase man.

I know that you are only about ten years older than I am--not more than nine, I think--and you dance very well, and no doubt you know it." "I like dancing, I can assure you, where there is room to dance; but I don't call it dancing when you have an area of only a foot square to dance in, and are hustled and bumped more than you would be in a crowded Lord Mayor's show.

My training has not suited me for it, and I would rather stand and look on, listen to scraps of conversation, watch the faces of the dancers and of those standing round.

It is a study, and I think it shows one of the worst sides of nature.

It is quite shocking to see and hear the envy, uncharitableness, the boredom, and the desperate efforts to look cheerful under difficulties, especially among the girls that do not get partners." "For shame! I am disappointed in you," Bertha said, half in jest, half in earnest.