three o'clock
Great baskets of flowers were sent in by some of the young people who remembered and loved Mary Boyle , and Helen helped to arrange them in the little old lady 's rooms . Tea things for a score of people came in , too . And cookies and cakes from the caterer 's . At three o'clock , or a little after , the callers began to arrive . Belle , and Hortense , and Flossie received them in the reception hall , had them remove their cloaks below stairs , and otherwise tried to make it appear that the function was really of their own planning . But nobody invited either of the Starkweather girls upstairs to Mary Boyle 's rooms . Perhaps it was an oversight .