Knowledgeable, sure, but do either of them really want him to be decent? She rather likes his roguish ways. If he wasn't already a proper companion for her, he wouldn't have had so much of her attention.

Stepping on her delicate little toes wouldn't make this talk any easier. The qualities that make him such a good dance partner also made this a good time for the talk, in a way: he's so decidedly in control of the dance, he isn't left floundering with no sense of control over everything else. Not an equal balance, but something of an emotional counterweight, perhaps?

She smiles at the compliment. He's not an easy man to get to know, and she knows there's still a great deal she doesn't know (and maybe never will), but a deep dark-watered pond can still reveal the occasional secret. Next season, she'll do better.

"Yes, I do need you to remind me to play sometimes." She answers with such a serious look that she's obviously playing. "I'm so terribly dull without you. And you'll come back with stories of adventures to make me wildly jealous, I'm sure."