We must stop this before it's too late."

And she pounced on her son, with a terrible frown,

At the pretty tea-shop at the end of the town.

Not a word did she say, but she took by the ear

Lord Algernon Perkyns de S.;

She turned him about, and she marched him straight out—

An undignified exit, altho', without doubt,

An effectual way to suppress

A thing which no mother could view with delight,