Most of the afternoon she had been rushing out into the garden, where games were in progress, to tell the children what they must not do:--"Tommy, you know you must not do that.

Haven't you got any sense at all ?" "Johnny, you wicked boy, how dare you do that; how many more times do you want me to tell you ?" "Jane, if you do that again you will go straight to bed, my girl!" and so on.
At length the door was opened from without, and a little face peeped in: "Mother!" "Now, what is it?
can't I ever get a moment's peace ?" "Mother, please would you mind telling us something we might do ?" The lady almost fell back on the floor in her astonishment.

The idea had never occurred to her.
"What may you do! Don't ask me.

I am tired enough of telling you what not to do." Things a Gentleman should never do.
I remember when a young man, wishful to conform to the rules of good society, I bought a book of etiquette for gentlemen.

Its fault was just this.