After Dark The Professor's Story of the Yellow Mask Part Third Chapter I

In which the preparations for a grand masked ball at the Melani Palace reveal the marquis’s eccentric hospitality and his quest to secure thirty trustworthy and beautiful young women as shepherdesses for the event. Among these is Nanina, a poor but respectable girl recently returned to Pisa, whose engagement to serve at the ball hints at new prospects amidst her quiet uncertainties.