Summarise the central idea in stanza 2 of the poem. What does the counting suggest you?

In Stanza 2, the speakers express (via a rhetorical question) their wish to keep the rest of the world away from the truth of the mask. While the world may attempt to comprehend the trouble of the masqueraders (“counting all our tears and sighs”), the latter wish to be seen by the former only when they are performing their false identities (“let them only see us, while / We wear the mask”).