[ . . . . . SEE. This is exactly why she just shouldn't ask. ][ She smiles a bit. ]
I danced with a stranger. [ Only, he wasn't a stranger at all. He just used the mask to speak freely. To pretend, for just a moment, at least, that they were strangers. That they could say and do whatever they liked. ]
That person said I reminded him of a girl he once knew.