I think there _is_ a good reason, and, at any rate, I have decided that you are not to go.

If you are a good girl, and do not make any difficulty, you can have your little chair out upon the front door-step, and can see the chaise come to the door, and see your father and me get in and drive away; and you can wave your handkerchief to us for a good-bye." Then, if she observes any expression of discontent or insubmission in Mary's countenance, the mother would add, "If you should _not_ be a good girl, but should show signs of making us any trouble, I shall have to send you out somewhere to the back part of the house until we are gone." But this last supposition is almost always unnecessary; for if Mary has been habitually managed on this principle she will _not_ make any trouble.

She will perceive at once that the question is settled--settled irrevocably--and especially that it is entirely beyond the power of any demonstrations of insubmission or rebellion that she can make to change it.
She will acquiesce at once.[A] She may be sorry that she can not go, but she will make no resistance.

Those children only attempt to carry their points by noisy and violent demonstrations who find, by experience, that such measures are usually successful.

A child, even, who has become once accustomed to them, will soon drop them if she finds, owing to a change in the system of management, that they now never succeed.