It is obscure assuming Macefield viewed it as such, yet she did carry on with her life how she saw fit paying little mind to what any other person needed to say regarding it.
BostWiki reports that she told her mom she was heading off to college at 16 years old and covertly enlisted in the military, carrying her to Britain.
She then, at that point, got removed from the military after they learned she was underage. She remained in Britain and wound up taking in war vagrants and, surprisingly, visited with the Regal Armed force’s walking band.