Then it dawned on me: no matter how hard I tried, I could not find even the faintest hint of perviness.

Like Ma Bell, I've Got The Ill Communications

after Nilus invndation, / Infinite shapes of creatures men do fynd, / Informed in the mud, on which the Sunne hath shynd.

If Mrs. Gilbert wishes to dance, said he, I shall have great pleasure, I am sure—for, though beginning to feel myself rather an old married man, and that my dancing days are over, it would give me very great pleasure at any time to stand up with an old friend like Mrs. Gilbert.