An illicit love affair seems sweetly old-fashioned in the age of one night stands and orgies.
Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?
If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much.
Nobody likes to offer stupidity as an excuse.
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
Wit: a whim followed by a wham.