“I tell you what, young fellow,” said she, “I didn’t bring you up by hand to badger people’s lives out. It would be blame to me and not praise, if I had. People are put in the Hulks because they murder, and because they rob, and forge, and do all sorts of bad; and they always begin by asking questions. Now, you get along to bed!”
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 2. Mrs. Joe believes in a harsh “children should be seen and not heard” style of parenting that instils fear in a child. Here she takes Pip to task for his inquisitiveness about the Hulks prisoner ships and their occupants. And she warns him that those who ask too many questions could end up with the murderers and robbers on the Hulks.