Binney and Latham of Mark Lane, London: from whom, indeed, old Doctor Portman had recommended Pen to get a supply of port and sherry on going to college.

"You will have, no doubt, to entertain your young friends at Boniface with wine-parties," the honest rector had remarked to the lad.

"They used to be customary at college in my time, and I would advise you to employ an honest and respectable house in London for your small stock of wine, rather than to have recourse to the Oxbridge tradesmen, whose liquor, if I remember rightly, was both deleterious in quality and exorbitant in price." And the obedient young gentleman took the Doctor's advice, and patronised Messrs.

Binney and Latham at the rector's suggestion.
So when he wrote orders for a stock of wine to be sent down to the cellars at Fairoaks, he hinted that Messrs.

B.and L.might send in his university account for wine at the same time with the Fairoaks bill.
The poor widow was frightened at the amount.