My friends and I had taken dancing lessons, although none of us would ever admit it. In those depression days, a friend of my mother was trying to make a living by teaching dancing in the evening, in an upstairs dance studio. There was a back door to the place, and she arranged it so the young men could come up through the back way without being seen.
'What Do You Care What Other People Think?': Further Adventures of a Curious Character (ed. Penguin UK, 2007) - ISBN: 9780141937588