Benvolio has suggested that the best way for Romeo to get over his love-sickness is to get out and meet other beautiful women. A typical social outing for the upper class youths of Verona would be a masked ball where the women hold small black masks in front of their eyes to disguise their identities while flirting with the men. Romeo thinks that not being able to see the faces behind the masks would remind him of the beautiful woman with whom he’s obsessed.