Definitely a charmer, she decided as she swiftly (and luckily, much more gracefully than she'd been before) slipped her shoe back onto her foot. Some men might look at her with disdain—losing a shoe, of course, was a sign of lacking poise—but this gentleman had only teased, and in a good-natured manner, too!

"Not popular enough to have danced with you," she rebutted, her smile widening. "I suppose it's been the ebullience of my dance partners, rather than the number, that's caused my worn shoes."

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