From a memoir published in 1997 —
The author and his friend Katz :
I couldn’t believe it.
— ‘You want to come with me?’
— ‘If it’s a problem, I understand.’
— ‘No,’ I said. ‘No, no, no.
You’re very welcome.
You are extremely welcome.’ “
— A Walk in the Woods , by Bill Bryson.
(Crown, Kindle edition. p. 20.)
From a novel published in 1971 —
“In the bluish light emanating from the TV,
EE looked at him, her eyes veiled. ‘You want me
to come while you watch.’ Chance said nothing.
. . . .
‘I think I understand now.’ She got up,
paced swiftly up and down the room,
crossing in front of the TV screen;
every now and then a word escaped her lips,
a word scarcely louder than her breath.”
— Being There , by Jerzy Kosinski
Back to the present . . .
See also Dance 101: A Leg Up.