Dora's foot was hurt.

We hope to do better next time."' Then came Noel's poem: 'We are the Wouldbegoods Society, We are not good yet, but we mean to try, And if we try, and if we don't succeed, It must mean we are very bad indeed.' This sounded so much righter than Noel's poetry generally does, that Oswald said so, and Noel explained that Denny had helped him.
'He seems to know the right length for lines of poetry.

I suppose it comes of learning so much at school,' Noel said.
Then Oswald proposed that anybody should be allowed to write in the book if they found out anything good that anyone else had done, but not things that were public acts; and nobody was to write about themselves, or anything other people told them, only what they found out.
After a brief jaw the others agreed, and Oswald felt, not for the first time in his young life, that he would have made a good diplomatic hero to carry despatches and outwit the other side.

For now he had put it out of the minute-book's power to be the kind of thing readers of Ministering Children would have wished.
'And if anyone tells other people any good thing he's done he is to go to Coventry for the rest of the day.' And Denny remarked, 'We shall do good by stealth, and blush to find it shame.' After that nothing was written in the book for some time.

I looked about, and so did the others, but I never caught anyone in the act of doing anything extra; though several of the others have told me since of things they did at this time, and really wondered nobody had noticed.
I think I said before that when you tell a story you cannot tell everything.