On Thursday evening, she entered the rooms with completely different feelings than on the Monday before. She had been happy about her engagement to Dorfman at the time and was now mainly concerned with avoiding his sight so that he would not engage her again; for although she could not expect, Mr. Alsina dared to ask her to dance a third time, her wishes, hopes and plans focused on nothing less. Every young lady may feel with my heroine at this critical moment, because every young lady has experienced the same excitement at some point. Everyone was, or at least believed themselves, in danger because they were persecuting someone they wanted to avoid; and everyone was worried about the attention of someone they wanted to please. As soon as the Dorfmans had joined them, Catherine's torment b
