from work and you're out again most nights.' John and
Betty Westley, the world amateur dancing champions, told me the same thing: 'You're thinking and living it all the time. The
deeper you get into it, the deeper it becomes—
You can only get that way by working hard and being religious about it. Mr. Westley is an interior decorator, Mrs. Westley a wages clerk. The regular outlay on dancing, for an amateur couple, is so large that both partners must have a job: travelling expenses are probably the big- gest single item, closely followed by lessons (Mr. and Mrs. Westley, for instance, take four or five lessons a week, at about 30s. a time), and dresses (most ladies have a new dress for each big competition, which means one every two months at frtm £25 to £50 each), as well as dance-hall entrance fees, weekly hair-dos, new sets of tails (trousers generally last a lifetime, Jackets may have to be replaced; 'When a lad
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