eleven o'clock
`` Mommer , I 'm going . Only I druther of went to the party , '' said Kern . A Beautiful New Year 's Party , and who spoiled it , and how ; how Something is done , after all , for she tells the Man plainly that he must n't speak to her any more . By eleven o'clock the festivities approached their height : even the ultra-fashionable had arrived , even the ultra-conservative had not departed for bed . The affair was none of your wholesale routs . Old Mr. Beirne , who had long claimed the eve of the New Year for the hospitable repayment of his social dues , had lived to see the list of his friends shrink fast as Old Years ticked out . Nevertheless , the scene now was indubitably inspiriting .