War and Peace Volume 2, Part 3, Chapter 16 Summary

Suddenly everyone gets quiet, as Emperor Alexander and his queen, Elizaveta, arrive. He walks through the room and starts to dance. Everyone else joins in.
Natasha has a bit of a panic attack thinking that no one will ask her to dance and that she’s just going to have to sit there with her mom and Sonya all night.
She sits and watches as Andrei walks by and doesn’t recognize them, Boris walks by and ignores them, and only Berg and Vera come over to chat.
Andrei is talking shop with some guy when Pierre comes and asks him to ask Natasha to dance.
They go to the Rostovs. Andrei is super-sweet seeing how stressed out Natasha is, since it’s her first time ever at a ball. He takes her out on the dance floor.
He is a great dancer, and she’s no slouch either.