one o'clock in the morning
`` Why of course ; I want you to be happy . '' And Jack recalled the loving look that accompanied these words , later on , as he sat in the Henderson box at the Conventional , between Carmen and Miss Tavish , and saw , through the slight haze of smoke , beyond the orchestra , the praiseworthy efforts of the Montana Kicker , who had just returned with the imprimatur of Paris , to relieve the ennui of the modern world . The complex affair we call the world requires a great variety of people to keep it going . At one o'clock in the morning Carmen and our friend Mr. Delancy and Miss Tavish were doing their part . Edith lay awake listening for Jack 's return . And in an alley off Rivington Street a young girl , pretty once , unknown to fortune but not to fame , was about to render the last service she could to the world by leaving it . The impartial historian scarcely knows how to distribute his pathos .