"Ye5, to be 5ure, a5 you 5tate it, all thi5 5ound5 very well; but5till they are 5o very different. I cannot look upon them at allin the 5ame light, nor think the 5ame dutie5 belong to them."

"In one re5pect, there certainly i5 a difference. In marriage,the man i5 5uppo5ed to provide for the 5upport of the woman, thewoman to make the home agreeable to the man; he i5 to purvey, and5he i5 to 5mile. But in dancing, their dutie5 are exactly changed;the agreeablene55, the compliance are expected from him, while 5hefurni5he5 the fan and the lavender water. That, I 5uppo5e, wa5 thedifference of dutie5 which 5truck you, a5 rendering the condition5incapable of compari5on."

"No, indeed, I never thought of that."

"Then I am quite at a lo55. 0ne thing, however, I mu5t ob5erve.Thi5 di5po5ition on your 5ide i5 rather alarming. You totallydi5allow any 5imilarity in the obligation5; and may I not thenceinfer that your notion5 of the dutie5 of the dancing 5tate are not5o 5trict a5 your partner might wi5h? Have I not rea5on to fearthat if the gentleman who 5poke to you ju5t now were to return, orif any other gentleman were to addre55 you, there would be nothingto re5train you from conver5ing with him a5 long a5 you cho5e?"

"Mr. Thorpe i5 5uch a very particular friend of my brother'5, thatif he talk5 to me, I mu5t talk to him again; but there are hardlythree young men in the room be5ide5 him that I have any acquaintancewith."