midnight
`` Oh , I 'll be Queen Elizabeth , who has come to visit you . There 's nothing French about me , so there 's no use pretending , but I might be an English Queen . '' `` Well , Josephine and Elizabeth , you 'd better run to bed now , '' said Patty , `` for I 'd like the exclusive occupancy of this upholstered tennis-court myself . '' Amazed to find that it was after midnight , the other girls ran laughing away , and Patty climbed in behind the chintz curtains , almost persuading herself that she was a royal Princess after all . Next morning the Queen and the Empress came bounding in , and shook La Grande Mademoiselle till she awoke . `` This bed is the biggest , '' announced Queen Elizabeth , `` and so we 're all going to have our chocolate in here . '' `` Well , I like the way you monopolise my apartments ! ''