Ford wasn't paying enough attention to the dance to recognize its climax, but he could hardly have missed Miss Chang jumping to her feet to applaud. He followed sheepishly, as though he expected someone to call him out for not having been paying enough attention to the ballet, though of course no one would have been paying enough attention to him to notice. Miss Chang rounded on him and Ford's eyebrows raised in surprise, though this did not delay his response: "Oh, yeah, wonderful. Absolutely," he parroted stupidly. I guess I'm a ballet fan now, he thought, while faintly somewhere in the back of his head he noticed and worried that it had not even occurred to him to disagree with her. She had just seemed so enthusiastic, so animated; he wouldn't have wanted to disappoint her by admitting he hadn't even really watched the dance.
She'd asked him about the schedule, and he didn't know but didn't want to admit to ignorance. "Uh, yeah, I think so," he said, glancing around the room as though this might be posted somewhere and he could figure it out that way. "With a different dancer, someone said. There's three performances, I think. We can watch them all," he added with a hopeful note.
(If there was something the matter with him, if this distraction was a problem, the last thing he wanted to do was to be surrounded by strangers while he tried to puzzle it out!)
She'd asked him about the schedule, and he didn't know but didn't want to admit to ignorance. "Uh, yeah, I think so," he said, glancing around the room as though this might be posted somewhere and he could figure it out that way. "With a different dancer, someone said. There's three performances, I think. We can watch them all," he added with a hopeful note.
(If there was something the matter with him, if this distraction was a problem, the last thing he wanted to do was to be surrounded by strangers while he tried to puzzle it out!)
Set by Lady!