He gave her one more smile and then he began to lead. It did not matter that it was no big ball room lid by beautiful candle light and that the music was created by a machine. They twirled around and it was wonderful. This broken home was their ball room and for a moment it seemed like he could grasp her vision of this place and share a flicker of her confidence. He had seen himself alone and her as a stranger but that was not accurate. She was his companion and together they could built a life.