So, when children come into a room where grown people are sitting, and make a noise in opening and shutting the door, it is very disagreeable.

Of course, grown people always like those children the best that come into a room quietly, and in a gentlemanly and lady-like manner." As this explanation comes in connection with Georgia's having done right, and with the commendation which he has received for it, his mind and heart are open to receive it, instead of being disposed to resist and exclude it, as he would have been if the same things exactly had been said to him in connection with censure and reproaches for having acted in violation of the principle.
"Yes, mother," says he, "and I mean always to open and shut the door as still as I can." "Yes, I know you _mean_ to do so," rejoined his mother, "but you will forget, unless you have some plan to make you remember it until the _habit is formed_.

Now I have a plan to propose to help you form the habit.

When you get the habit once formed there will be no more difficulty.
"The plan is this: whenever you come into a room making a noise, I will simply say, _Noise_.

Then you will step back again softly and shut the door, and then come in again in a quiet and proper way.