New Year's eve at seven
o'clock
The day before New Year Paul received a neatly folded note , addressed to Mr. Paul Parker . How funny it looked ! It was the first time in his life that he had seen `` Mr. '' prefixed to his name . He opened it , and read that Miss Daphne Dare would receive her friends on New Year 's eve at seven o'clock . A great many thoughts passed through his mind . How could he go and wear his grandfather 's coat ? At school he was on equal footing with all ; but to be one of a party in a richly furnished parlor , where Philip , Fanny , and Azalia , and other boys and girls whose fathers had money , could turn their backs on him and snub him , was very different .