(Starting toward street door.)
No come?
VANDERLIP
(Explosively.)
NO!
(Exit Sitka Charley.)
(Vanderlip goes to rear, takes off domino, disclosing himself as a cowboy. Hangs domino on wall. Takes down from wall a sombrero, which he puts on head. Makes exit to left.)
(Prince, who is now alone, walks over to stove at left, adjusts damper, and warms his hands.)
(The street door is cautiously opened, without knocking, and Sitka Charley puts head inside and peers around. Withdraws head.)
(Street door is again cautiously opened, this time the masked face of a woman appearing, and then Freda, in long cloak, enters. She removes street moccasins, revealing dancing slippers on her feet, and puts moccasins under bench close to door. She removes cloak, and reveals herself in a striking evening gown. As she turns her back to hang cloak on wall, Prince happens to see her. She starts toward ballroom, but he steps in her way and stops her.)