It would be wrong to say that she commanded; for her own efficiency was so impatient that she obeyed herself before any one else obeyed her.
说她发号施令并不准确;她做事如此干练而急切,旁人还来不及听令,她自己就先动手了。
— G. K. Chesterton · Manalive · I · How the Great Wind Came to Beacon House —