Also very faintly, almost hanging in the evening air, we hear strains of ‘Carmen’ (Habanera)
waxing and waning on the breeze. The ‘ghost dancers’ are the Gigolo and Schoolgirl. He is
dressed in a smart white suit and she is in a short black dress with a scarf forming a fringe on
her forehead, and a red rose between the toes of one foot. They make no sound, and Pierette
and the young sailor remain frozen during this ghostly dance.

The dance is highly polished and professional, containing passages of a subtle and delicate
eroticism. They dance over the old Mariner’s clothes, also disturbing their arranged shape –
continue to U/S where they are separated by the veiled stone and fade with the music to
opposite recesses by the stage.