You go to Brighton. I would not trust you so near it as East Bourne for fifty pounds! No, Kitty, I have at last learnt to be cautious, and you will feel the effects of it. No officer is ever to enter my house again, nor even to pass through the village. Balls will be absolutely prohibited, unless you stand up with one of your sisters. And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

– Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 48. Mr. Bennet has learned the lessons of bad parenting – but a little too late. Here he responds to Kitty, when she says that if she should ever go to Brighton she would behave better than Lydia. Mr. Bennet decrees that from now on: no officer in the house, no balls, no going out for his daughters until they prove they can behave themselves at home. Too late to save Lydia from scandal, however.