We dined, that afternoon, in the Long Room of the "Ship" Inn, and afterwards danced the night through in the Town Hall.
The Major danced famously.

Above all things, he prided himself on being a ladies' man, and the fair sex (as he always called them) admired him without disguise.

His manner towards them was gallant yet deferential, tender yet manly.

He conceded everything to their weakness; yet no man in Troy could treat a woman with greater plainness of speech.

The confirmed spinsters (high and low, rich and poor, we counted seventy-three of them in Troy) seemed to like him none the less because he lost no occasion, public or private, of commending wedlock.