This furnishes his mother with her opportunity.
"Georgie," she says, "I see you are improving." "Improving ?" repeats Georgie, not knowing to what his mother refers.
"Yes," said his mother; "you are improving, in coming into the room without making a noise by opening and shutting the door.

You did not make nearly as much noise this time as you did before when you came in.

Some boys, whenever they come into a room, make so much noise in opening and shutting the door that it is very disagreeable.

If you go on improving as you have begun, you will soon come in as still as any gentleman." The next time that Georgie comes in, he takes the utmost pains to open and shut the door as silently as possible.
He makes his request.

His mother shows herself unusually ready to grant it.
"You opened and shut the door like a gentleman," she says.