[Lyle had asked her to come with him as a friend. He wasn't going to care if she wanted to dance with someone else. That's how friend did it after all.
He was dressed rather nicely, in a suit with a bow tie and all. He was rather dashing if he did say so himself.
But finally he decided he needed a break. Party's were but sometimes you just had to take a step back. So he heads outside as well and finds a familiar face already outside smoking. He walked over to her]