There's a memory both of the number she'd given him -- one he hadn't been able to force himself to call while in such strained financial straits, something he's recently managed to rectify -- and of past forced dance lessons when he'd been very young as a slower song comes on, attempting to banish both.

"... there's a sense of déjà vu in all of this. We met first after a similar announcement, though Sylvia's words didn't carry as many veiled threats. You actually feel capable of backing them up?"