He has no business to withdraw the attention of my partner from me. We have entered into a contract of mutual agreeableness for the space of an evening, and all our agreeableness belongs solely to each other for that time.
Nobody can fasten themselves on the notice of one, without injuring the rights of the other.
I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. To be sure not. People that marry can never part , but must go and keep house together. And such is your definition of matrimony and dancing. That , I suppose, was the difference of duties which struck you, as rendering the conditions incapable of comparison.