According to Director van Gulik, a Chinese acquaintance of theirs once remarked with surprise that she had maintained the usage and intonations of the 1930s, and had even asked to record some tapes of her for safekeeping.
她說得一口極軟的標準國語，據高館長說，曾經有一位中國朋友聽了母親說話後，驚訝地表示，她的口音幾十年沒變，完全保持了三○年代戰前的語法和音調。這位朋友甚至還要求錄下幾卷帶子保存。