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She reviewed the history of the Binkses from Ebenezer the First down to that present day. There had been three Divine Submissions in the family and they had made the name of Binks known wherever people knew anything. When Mrs. Wright left the room Mrs. Binks directed her conversation at me, and when Mrs. Wright returned I only got the spray of it.
I remember that the Senator, who returned to Canton that evening on the Watertown stage, laughed heartily when, as we were sitting by the fireside, Mrs. Wright told of the call of the Binkses. "The good lady enjoys a singular plurality," he remarked. "She enjoys it better than we do," said Mrs. Wright. The Senator had greeted me with a fatherly warmth.
When the day's work was ended Mrs. Wright exclaimed: "Thank goodness! the Binkses have not returned." We always referred to Mrs. Binks as the Binkses after that. Mrs. Jenison, a friend of the Wrights, came in that afternoon and told us of the visit of young Latour to Canton and of the great relief of the decent people at his speedy departure. "I wonder what brought him here," said Mrs. Wright.
Trotter, a sanctimonious widow, with three superhuman children, who never had so much as a spot on their pinafores, and were far in advance of the young Binkses in Kings and Chronicles; indeed the youngest Trotter had been familiar with all the works of Hezekiah before the eldest Binks had grasped the abstract idea of Saul. For Clarissa the change to Arden Court was a pleasant one.
"What have you been studying?" "Including the history of the Binkses," he laughed. There was never a note of humor in his speeches, but he was playful in his talk at times, especially when trusted friends were with him. "She is a very excellent woman, after all," he added.
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