But getting a date with this quick-witted and sensitive top-notch Radcliffe student was no easy matter. She had received a strict Western-style gentlewoman's education: she studied at Hong Kong University, and was a graduate of McTyeire Elementary School in Shanghai and St. Mary's Hall. Dates had to be arranged a week in advance. She would not accept gifts from any man other than a committed "boyfriend."
但是約會這個聰敏的哈佛瑞德克莉夫女校拔尖高材生，不是件容易的事；她來自香港大學，從「上海小中西」小學及聖瑪琍亞女校畢業以來，一直接受最嚴謹的西式淑女長成教育：訂約會必得一周之前，不是深交男友送的貴重禮物一概退還。