five o'clock
It 's got to be that way -- it 's got to be -- '' And then again : `` We 've been so happy , so very happy ... '' He rose to his feet and threw himself on the bed in an ecstasy of sentiment , and then lay exhausted while he realized slowly that he had been very drunk the night before , and that his head was spinning again wildly . He laughed , rose , and crossed again to Lethe ... . At noon he ran into a crowd in the Biltmore bar , and the riot began again . He had a vague recollection afterward of discussing French poetry with a British officer who was introduced to him as `` Captain Corn , of his Majesty 's Foot , '' and he remembered attempting to recite `` Clair de Lune '' at luncheon ; then he slept in a big , soft chair until almost five o'clock when another crowd found and woke him ; there followed an alcoholic dressing of several temperaments for the ordeal of dinner . They selected theatre tickets at Tyson 's for a play that had a four-drink programme -- a play with two monotonous voices , with turbid , gloomy scenes , and lighting effects that were hard to follow when his eyes behaved so amazingly . He imagined afterward that it must have been `` The Jest . '' ... ... Then the Cocoanut Grove , where Amory slept again on a little balcony outside .