Atticus is out of town on business for two whole weeks. He'll be working at the state legislature in Montgomery. While he's gone, Calpurnia takes Scout and Jem to her church, which has an exclusively African American congregation. Normally, when Scout and Jem are left "fatherless and teacherless," they get up to no good. Scout recalls one time when the children played a game in which they tied poor old Eunice Ann Simpson to a chair, put her in a furnace room, and then forgot all about her. During the service that Sunday morning, the sermon was interrupted by the sound of Eunice banging against the radiator pipes as she struggled to get free. Clearly, Cal doesn't want to see a repeat performance. She wants to keep the Finch children out of mischief, and so she figures that the best way to do that is to take them with her to church.
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