"Lottie," Billy said, as if there wasn't any question about it. It was likely that she would be much more affronted if he happened to stumble. But-- "I don't want to cause too much of a scandal, dancing with a married woman that close to my age."

He looked down at his shoes for a moment so that he wasn't tempted to do anything stupid by looking at Goodnight. "I've had a very good dancing teacher, too. So hopefully I won't trod on anyone's feet."