sentences:  Their respectful show of repentance covers up their continuing rebellion against middle class authority.Although Potter approves of the domestic and social rebellion of the mice and their desire for a comfortable house of their own, she disapproves of the emptiness and sterility of the dolls' lives in the doll's house yet understands the attractions of a comfortable life made possible in part by the labour of servants.A reviewer in "Bookman" thought "Two Bad Mice" a pleasant change from Potter's rabbit books ("Peter Rabbit" and "Benjamin Bunny") and believed neither Tom Thumb or Hunca Munca were completely bad, noting they both looked innocent and lovable in Potter's twenty-seven watercolour drawings.