six o'clock
The house-warming , as Wade chose to call his dinner-party , came off on Saturday night . Wade had moved his bed back to the guest-room upstairs and the sitting-room had regained its former character . In this room and in the parlor and dining-room bowls and vases of pink roses -- which had come from Boston on ice in great wooden boxes , and about which the village at large was already excitedly speculating -- stood in every available spot . But if Eden Village found subject for comment in the extravagant shipment of roses , imagine its wonderment when it beheld , shortly after six o'clock , Doctor Crimmins parading magnificently up the street in swallow-tailed coat and white vest , a costume which Miss Cousins was certain he had not worn in twenty years ! Wade and his guests sat on the new side porch while awaiting dinner and Wade came in for a lot of praise for the improvements he had worked in his garden , praise which he promptly disclaimed in favor of Miss Mullett . `` Goodness only knows what I 'd have done if it had n't been for her , '' he laughed . `` I wanted to plant American Beauty roses and maiden-hair fern all over the place .