After marrying in Chungking, they returned to the Hague in 1945. They had just settled down and she had started to study Dutch at home when van Gulik was transferred to the United States two years later. Less than a year after that he was posted to Tokyo.
一九四三年他們在重慶結婚後，旋即在一九四五年回到海牙，稍作安頓，她開始請了一位先生到家裡教荷蘭文，可惜不到兩年，高羅佩就調往美國，未滿一年，又去了東京。