about eleven o'clock
But the Christmas spirit made them forget to be snobs . You 'd hear millionaires telling plain people how they used to play Hallowe'en jokes , how they scraped up to buy their mothers little Christmas gifts -- what ridiculous things they used to get and give ! All evening as fast as anybody went out they 'd let somebody else in . Along about eleven o'clock a lot of the people began to go home . Then a new crowd come in . People who had taken their childern home and put them to bed would come back for more fun . Others , who had spent the evening dining , began to dribble in .