noon
The Candy Man did not see his way clear to disclaim proprietorship in Miss Bentley , so let it pass . Certainly , on other grounds his Miss Bentley , to call her so , could not be Mrs. Gerrard Pennington 's niece . Not that she lacked the charm to grace any position however high , but her simplicity and friendliness , the fact that she walked in the country with a stoutish relative who was intimate with the family of the park superintendent , the marketing he had witnessed , all went to prove his point . Yet on the occasion of a fashionable noon wedding at the stone church near the Y.M.C.A. corner , all this impressive evidence was brought to naught . In the crush of machines and carriages the Candy Wagon was all but engulfed in high life . When the crowd surged out after the bridal party , the congestion for a few minutes baffled the efforts of the corps of police . The Candy Man , looking on with much amusement at the well-dressed throng , presently received a thrill at the sound of a clear young voice exclaiming , `` Here is the car , Aunt Eleanor -- over here . ''