It's Christmas Eve, and the narrator is shivering in the cold. He doesn't want to go to the party because he's afraid the author will catch him. He wants to make breakfast for his friend, who's back from the bazaar. He asks her to make him a special cake for his birthday. She says she'll do it for him if she has time. The narrator is excited to show him the cake, which is a chestnut pumpkin pie with cream cheese frosting. She's also excited to tell him that she's going to teach him how to make the cake in her hotel's cooking class.