(Laughter and voices, and many couples enter from lejt, some in costume, several in hooded dominos.)
SITKA CHARLEY
(Recoiling, startled and excited.)
What that?
(Prince laughs.)
What for? Everybody crazy?
PRINCE
(Laughing.)
Button, button, who's got the button. Go and find him.
(Sitka Charley, walking stealthily, like a wild animal in dangerous territory, goes adventuring amongst the maskers.) (After some time, a domino takes Sitka Charley by the arm and leads him apart.)