He is a very fine dancer. The Scots aren't quite the Irish, who've been said to prefer dancing to eating, but Ben Mackinnon was raised to dance a very fine reel. And having gone to college himself during the early days of the swing revival, this one's a skill he picked up, too. Nothing impresses a history major in a vintage dress quite like the ability to actually jitterbug.

It remains to be seen if it has that same effect on accountants.

"Oh, I think I can take it, Rita," he says as he sketches her a charming bow with a rakish grin. "If you can, at least."