noon
Yet it was very simple . I hoed the garden and cleaned its paths and mowed the dooryard and did some painting in the house . I remember that Mrs. Ebenezer Binks -- wife of the deacon and the constable -- came in while I was at the latter task early one morning to see if there were anything she could do . She immediately sat down and talked constantly until noon of her family and especially of the heartlessness and general misconduct of her son and daughter-in-law because they had refused to let her apply the name of Divine Submission to the baby . It had been a hard blow to Mrs. Binks , because this was the one and only favor which she had ever asked of them . 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 .