"_May I have the pleasure?_" _i.e._, "Wish to goodness she'd refuse, but
no such luck!"
"_Delighted!_" _i.e._, "I'd as soon dance with a tipsy Mammoth."
"_Awfully sorry, but I haven't one dance left;_" _i.e._, "I've three,
but if I'd thirty, he shouldn't have one, the lemon-headed little cad!"
"_I think I see Mamma looking for me;_" _i.e._, "Must get rid of the
bore somehow."