Chapter C

If a gentleman presumes to ask you to dance without an introduction, you will of course refuse. It is hardly necessary to supply the fair reader with words to repel such a rudeness; a man must have more than ordinary impertinence if he was not satisfied by your saying, âI must decline, sir, not having the honor of your acquaintance;â and recollect that his previous rudeness ought to be punished by your refusing to be introduced.