“Suppose now any mother should say to her boy, ‘Come, my boy, it is time for you to go to bed;’ and the boy should say, ‘I won’t go.’ Would that be right or wrong?”
“Oh, very wrong,” said Rollo.
“Suppose he should begin to cry, and say he did not want to go?”
“That would be very wrong too,” said Rollo.
“Suppose he should begin to beg a little, and say, ‘I don’t want to go now, I should think you might let me sit up a little longer.’ What should you think of that?”
“It would be wrong.”
“Suppose he should look up into his mother’s face sorrowfully, and say, ‘Must I go now, mother?’”
“Suppose he should not say a word, but look cross and ill-humored, and throw away his playthings in a pet, and walk by the side of his mother, reluctantly and slowly. What should you think of that?”
“I think it would be wrong.”