"One dance couldn't hurt, I suppose." Louisa agreed. "And it will give all the young ladies in the room a chance to see you as you dance by, with poor old me. They'll be clamouring to get you away from such an old bat." She said with a laugh, although it not might not have been quite as happy as it seemed. She felt rather out of place in a room where almost all the women were either young, or contentedly married.