But you may decide this question yourself.

If you choose to submit to a punishment, and will tell me so to-morrow morning, I will think of some suitable one for you.

If you do not say any thing to me about it, I shall not punish you." So saying, Forester bade Marco good night.
The next morning, Marco met Forester on the stairs, as he was coming down to breakfast, and told him that he thought he should feel better to be punished.

So Forester reflected upon the subject, and at nine o'clock, when Marco went in to commence his studies, Forester told him that he had concluded upon his punishment.
"What is it to be ?" said Marco.
"It is for me not to allow you to study," replied Forester, "all this forenoon, but to require you to sit still at your desk, with nothing to do.

You see it will be a sort of solitary imprisonment, only your prison will in itself be a pleasant place." Marco thought that this would not be a very severe punishment, but he found, in enduring it, that it was in fact much more severe than he had imagined.