On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party,....

“ On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse. In the present case it took up ten minutes to determine whether the boy were most like his father or mother, and in what particular he resembled either, for of course every body differed, and every body was astonished at the opinion of the others. ”

Jane Austen

From : Sense and Sensibility