midnight
In the early morning of May the second it was unusually full . Over the marble-topped tables were bent the excited faces of flappers whose fathers owned individual villages . They were eating buckwheat cakes and scrambled eggs with relish and gusto , an accomplishment that it would have been utterly impossible for them to repeat in the same place four hours later . Almost the entire crowd were from the Gamma Psi dance at Delmonico 's except for several chorus girls from a midnight revue who sat at a side table and wished they 'd taken off a little more make-up after the show . Here and there a drab , mouse-like figure , desperately out of place , watched the butterflies with a weary , puzzled curiosity . But the drab figure was the exception . This was the morning after May Day , and celebration was still in the air .