"I think there will be very tolerable room for ten couple."
"No, no," said she, "you are quite unreasonable. It would be dreadful to be standing so close! Nothing can be farther from pleasure than to be dancing in a crowd——and a crowd in a little room!"
"There is no denying it," he replied. "I agree with you exactly. A crowd in a little room——Miss Woodhouse, you have the art of giving pictures in a few words. Exquisite, quite exquisite!——Still, however, having proceeded so far, one is unwilling to give the matter up. It would be a disappointment to my father——and altogether——I do not know that——I am rather of opinion that ten couple might stand here very well."
Before the middle of the next day, he was at Hartfield; and he entered the room with such an agreeable smile as certified the continuance of the scheme. It soon appeared that he came to announce an improvement.
"The Crown!"
She was obliged to repeat and explain it, before it was fully comprehended; and then, being quite new, farther representations were necessary to make it acceptable.