My thoughts exactly...

"It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances
have been known of young people passing many, many months
successively, without being at any ball of any description, and
no material injury accrue either to body or mind; — but when
a beginning is made — when the felicities of rapid motion have
once been, though slightly, felt — it must be a very heavy set that
does not ask for more."

Jane Austin: Emma, Vol. II, Ch.11


By the way, the book has become much more interesting since the advent of Mr. Frank Churchill.