I have learned everything, positively everything, in twenty lessons.

Why should not one learn to dance?
It is pure superstition! Here is mama, who used to get angry because the teacher was always clutching at my knees.

That was because she is not cultured.

Of what importance is it?
He's only the dancing-master." Lipotchka proceeds to picture to herself that she receives a proposal from an officer, and that he thinks she is uneducated because she gets confused.

She has not danced for a year and a half, and decides to practice a little.