nine o'clock in the morning
The future is so hideous , let the joy of the present kill all thoughts of those coming three years . Marosfalva is the rallying-point , where this final annual jollification takes place . They all come over on the thirteenth from Fekete and Görcz , and Kender , in order to dance and to sing at Marosfalva in the barn which belongs to Ignácz Goldstein the Jew . Marosfalva boasts of a railway station and it is from here that at nine o'clock in the morning the lads will be entrained ; so all day on the thirteenth there has been a pilgrimage along the cross-roads from the outlying villages and hamlets round Marosfalva -- a stream of men and women and young children all determined to forget for a few hours the coming separation of the morrow ; by five o'clock in the afternoon all those had assembled who had meant to come and dancing in the barn had begun . Ignácz Goldstein 's barn has always been the setting in which the final drama of the happy year is acted . After that night spent there in dancing and music and merry-making , down goes the curtain on the comedy of life and the tragedy of tears begins . Since five o'clock in the afternoon the young people have been dancing -- waltzing , polkaing , dancing the csárdás -- mostly the csárdás , the dance of the nation , of the people , the most exhilarating , most entrancing , most voluptuous dance that feet of man have ever trod .