'I'm afraid the Ambassador thought me very rude.' 'Because you went to sleep?
I don't believe he even noticed it.

And if he did, why should you mind?
Nobody cares what anybody does nowadays.
We've simplified life since the days of our fathers.

We think more of the big things than they did, and much less of the little ones.' 'All the same, I wish I had kept awake!' 'Nonsense!' retorted Lady Maud.

'What is the use of being famous if you cannot go to sleep when you are sleepy?
This is a bad world as it is, but it would be intolerable if one had to keep up one's school-room manners all one's life, and sit up straight and spell properly, as if Society, with a big S, were a governess that could send us to bed without our supper if we didn't!' Margaret laughed a little, but there was no ripple in Lady Maud's delicious voice as she made these singular statements.

She was profoundly in earnest.
'The public is my schoolmistress,' said Margaret.