Why should she spring about like a bear on a hot iron ?' 'You should go and teach them.' 'It is just what I should like; only they would not be taught; and I should be stern, and tell them the truth.' 'Why don't you go and dance with them yourself ?' 'I!' 'Why not?
There is one second-class lady there ?' This was true.

For though none of the men would have been admitted from the inferior rank to join the superior, the rule of demarcation had so far been broken that a pretty girl who was known to some of the first-class passengers had been invited to come over the line and join the amusements of the evening.

'She dances about as well as any of them.' 'If you were among them would you dare to come out and ask me to join them?
That is a question which you won't even dare to answer.' 'It is a little personal.' '"No," you ought to say.

"I could not do that because your clothes are so poor, and because of your ragged old hat, and I am not quite sure that your shoes are fit to be seen." Is not that what you would say, if you said what you thought ?' 'Perhaps it is.' 'And if you said all that you thought, perhaps you would remind me that a woman of whom nobody knows anything is always held to be disreputable.
That girl, no doubt, has her decent belongings.

I have nobody.' 'You have your friends on board.' 'No, I have not.