eleven o'clock
Dinner was served at eight , the menu selected by Jimmy Holden -- with the exception of the birthday cake and its five proud little candles which came as an anticipated surprise from his `` Uncle '' Paul Brennan . After dinner , they listened to some music chosen by the boy , and the evening wound up with three rubbers of bridge . The boy won . They left Paul Brennan 's apartment just after eleven o'clock . Jimmy Holden was tired and pleasantly stuffed with good food . But he was stimulated by the party . So , instead of dropping off to sleep , he sat comfortably wedged between his father and mother , quietly lost in his own thoughts until the car was well out of town .