nearly six o'clock before
After dinner came visitors . They were all grown up people , and Mrs. Horton and Aunt Bessie gave them tea to drink and sandwiches from the tea wagon and Sunny Boy , in his best white flannel sailor suit , passed them the plates of New Year cakes which Harriet had baked . They were delicious little cakes with caraway seeds and pink sugar on them , and Sunny Boy had three for himself . It was nearly six o'clock before the `` company '' as Sunny Boy called them , had gone . Then , to his surprise , his daddy came into the parlor with his overcoat on and his hat in his hand . `` Olive , '' he said to Sunny Boy 's mother , `` I 'm going over to Dover street in the River Section for a short call . Father is going with me .