"That's quite all right," Jack chuckled when the young lady professed that she had been perhaps a little too eager to attend the ball. "It's something wonderful and new, I'm sure you're not the only young lady to be a little over excited." From his own school years, he could remember the girls talking about the event for months in advance.

"I can't say that it has for me - but then again. I do enjoy dancing and becoming acquainted with lovely young ladies such as yourself, Miss-," he let the last word hang a bit, in the hopes that she would provide her name.