<p>This is kind of hard to explain, I hope my English is sufficient:</p>

<p>I have a class "A" which should maintain a list of objects of class "B" (like a private List). A consumer of class "A" should be able to add items to the list. After the items are added to the list, the consumer should not be able to modify them again, left alone that he should not be able to temper with the list itself (add or remove items). But he should be able to enumerate the items in the list and get their values. Is there a pattern for it? How would you do that? </p>

<p>If the question is not clear enough, please let me know.</p>

EDIT:
Added support for edition contexts. Caller can only add elements inside an edition context. You can aditionally enforce that only one edition context can be created for the lifetime of the instance.
Using encapsulation you can define any set of policies to access the inner private member. The following example is a basic implementation of your requirements:
```
```
namespace ConsoleApplication2
{
    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Collections;

    class B
    {
    }

    interface IEditable
    {
        void StartEdit();
        void StopEdit();
    }

    class EditContext<T> : IDisposable where T : IEditable
    {
        private T parent;

        public EditContext(T parent)
        {
            parent.StartEdit();
            this.parent = parent;
        }

        public void Dispose()
        {
            this.parent.StopEdit();
        }
    }

    class A : IEnumerable<B>, IEditable
    {
        private List<B> _myList = new List<B>();
        private bool editable;

        public void Add(B o)
        {
            if (!editable)
            {
                throw new NotSupportedException();
            }
            _myList.Add(o);
        }

        public EditContext<A> ForEdition()
        {
            return new EditContext<A>(this);
        }

        public IEnumerator<B> GetEnumerator()
        {
            return _myList.GetEnumerator();
        }

        IEnumerator IEnumerable.GetEnumerator()
        {
            return this.GetEnumerator();
        }

        public void StartEdit()
        {
            this.editable = true;
        }

        public void StopEdit()
        {
            this.editable = false;
        }
    }

    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            A a = new A();
            using (EditContext<A> edit = a.ForEdition())
            {
                a.Add(new B());
                a.Add(new B());
            }

            foreach (B o in a)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(o.GetType().ToString());
            }

            a.Add(new B());

            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}
```
```