What does the man want to do?

M: Good evening. My name is Tom Smith, may I know your name?
W: My name is Mary Classon.
M: Mary, would you care to dance?
W: I’d love to, but I have to be off with something important to do.

M: We’d better start to eat onion frequently, Linda.
W: But you hate onions, don’t you?
M: Until I learned from a report from today’ s paper that they protect people from flu and colds. After all, compared with health, taste is not so important.