At the ball, Anning mainly engaged in chatting because being a poor dancer and constantly stepping on the young ladies' feet wasn't very nice.
The first dance was inevitable, as the host must lead the dance, but after the first one, Anning was thoroughly exhausted and sat aside feasting and drinking, conversing with the stream of gentlemen and ladies approaching.
Pauline also made her way to Anning, incessantly looking for opportunities to ask about the old stories between Anning and Napoleon.
So Anning happily enlightened Napoleon's sister about many of Napoleon's past deeds, things like chasing the nobles who bullied him with a shovel to protect the saplings he had planted in the nursery, his obsession with Rome so he insisted on calling Anning Caesar and he himself wanting to be Octavian, to name just a few.
Pauline probably thought these stories were inconsequential, so she always shut up and gave way to others whenever another gentleman started to speak.
