<actual reaction>Well GEE THANKS for your generous acknowledgement, miss wayward subordinate.</actual reaction>

<spoken reaction>"Yes.  I do apologize both for its inconvenience, and for necessarily arrogating that decision to be myself if it's to be made at all.</spoken reaction>

It's less humiliating to say in Utopian, at least.

<actual reaction>Well GEE THANKS for your generous acknowledgement, miss wayward subordinate.</actual reaction>

<spoken reaction>"Yes.  I do apologize both for its inconvenience, and for necessarily arrogating that decision to myself if it's to be made that way at all."</spoken reaction>

It's less humiliating to say in Utopian, at least.