one o'clock
We 're all Americans ! Have another . '' They had another . At one o'clock a special orchestra , special even in a day of special orchestras , arrived at Delmonico 's , and its members , seating themselves arrogantly around the piano , took up the burden of providing music for the Gamma Psi Fraternity . They were headed by a famous flute-player , distinguished throughout New York for his feat of standing on his head and shimmying with his shoulders while he played the latest jazz on his flute . During his performance the lights were extinguished except for the spotlight on the flute-player and another roving beam that threw flickering shadows and changing kaleidoscopic colors over the massed dancers . Edith had danced herself into that tired , dreamy state habitual only with débutantes , a state equivalent to the glow of a noble soul after several long highballs .