L. Well. I'm telling you about it, as fast as I can.

DORA. What! the first of girls' virtues is dancing?

L. More accurately, it is wishing to dance, and not wishing to

tease, nor hear about virtue.

DORA (to EGYPT). Isn't he cross?

EGYPT. How many balls must we go to in the season, to be perfectly

virtuous?

L. As many as you can without losing your color. But I did not say

you should wish to go to balls. I said you should be always

wanting to dance.

EGYPT. So we do; but everybody says it is very wrong.

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