Six months have passed, and Cabriolo and his band of entertainers are not finding life in a castle nearly as glamorous as they had imagined it would be. In fact they are all terribly bored and miss their previous lives as travelling players. Out on a hunting trip, Prince Raphaël catches a glimpse of a girl who seems to be his Princess of Trébizonde. He makes a detour into the castle and Zanetta eventually admits that it was her in disguise he saw that day at the circus. Raphaël and Zanetta hatch a plan to stay together. Raphaël's father Prince Casimir and his tutor Sparadrap present themselves at the castle. Raphaël persuades his father to purchase all the waxwork figures of the old sideshow and to make Cabriolo curator of a museum containing them. They all return to Casimir's Palace. Act 3 Prince Casimir's palace Cabriolo has been elevated to the title of "Baron Cascatella" and he and his family along with the waxwork show are living in Prince Casimir's palace. Trémolini and Regina have re-kindled their romance, and Sparadrap and Paola have also fallen for each other. Raphaël has kept up a pretence of being in love with a waxwork doll because while being in love with a waxwork is harmless enough, his father would never allow him to marry a girl so far below him in rank as Zanetta is. Finding out that Prince Casimir is going out on a night-time hunting expedition, Raphaël plans an extravagant supper for himself and Zanetta. Plans are made to meet later that evening in the castle museum. Coincidentally Trémolini and Regina, and Sparadrap and Paola, also make plans to meet in the same place that very night. After much confusion all three couples are discovered by Cabriolo who has come to visit his beloved waxworks and all sit down to a magnificent supper. A suspicious Prince Casimir has returned early from the hunt and after a certain amount of elaborate pretence by Cabriolo it is revealed that his son is in love with a circus performer, but when it is discovered that he himself had once been married to a lady acrobat – in fact Paola's long-lost sister – he can offer no objection to his son's choice, and the work concludes with festive preparations for a triple marriage. Reception and performance history The work was a success with audiences and