Enter Nato and her friends
.
SALOME [
collecting the cards
]. Who can have done it? Nato, did you do it?
NATO. No, mamma, I did not touch them.
SALOME [
to the guests
]. Sit down, I beg.
[All the guests sit down at the table, Nato and her friends sit on the other side of the stage. Salome, standing, deals the cards which the guests hand one to the other. Then they pay in the stakes to Salome, which she lays on the table in front of her.