 (I have just remembered that it was another dance I danced with Percival...) The second dance was a Polka, which I did not dance as Mama does not like us to dance it with gentlemen except brothers and cousins, though I do not see more harm in it than in a Galop" (21 August).She goes to some trouble to avoid being taken into supper by a leering, teasing Mr Talbot, but finds herself sitting next to him nonetheless.Emily has regular lessons