feelings of her partner before she can graduate a perfect dancer.

So, even if it be allowed that a woman may waltz virtuously, she cannot,
in that case, waltz well.

It matters not how perfectly she knows and takes the steps, she must
yield herself entirely to her partner's embrace, and also to his
emotions. Until a girl can and will do this she is regarded a scrub by
the male experts.

I would that young women who dance could just once be "behind the
scenes" when young men meet after an evening's dance to discuss it
together, and hear such remarks as "that Miss ---- is a perfect stick. I
would not give a fig to dance with her. You can't arouse any more
passion in her than you could in a putty man. To waltz with such as she
is not what I go for."

Or, another says: "Ah! but that beautiful Miss Smith is a daisy. She is
posted. This waltzing is the greatest thing in the world. While you are
whirling one of these dear creatures, if you do the thing correctly, you
can whisper in her ear things she would shoot you for saying at any
other time, but she likes it all the same. They take to it naturally
enough if they are properly taught. If you don't know just how it is
done go to a dancing master, or any professional dancer. They know, and
they will soon let you know. You will soon become a waltzer and thus
find out what there is in it."

Such remarks, and worse than these, (remarks unfit to publish even in
this plainly written book) are made, my fair young ladies, after the
ball, about you by the very young men who, at the dance, you thought so