Midnight
But he never realized how wide-spread it was until he saw the cities between New York and Chicago as one vast juvenile intrigue . Afternoon at the Plaza , with winter twilight hovering outside and faint drums down-stairs ... they strut and fret in the lobby , taking another cocktail , scrupulously attired and waiting . Then the swinging doors revolve and three bundles of fur mince in . The theatre comes afterward ; then a table at the Midnight Frolic -- of course , mother will be along there , but she will serve only to make things more secretive and brilliant as she sits in solitary state at the deserted table and thinks such entertainments as this are not half so bad as they are painted , only rather wearying . But the P. D. is in love again ... it was odd , was n't it ? -- that though there was so much room left in the taxi the P. D. and the boy from Williams were somehow crowded out and had to go in a separate car . Odd !