However, after marrying into the protocol-laden Chiang family, the young Russian woman began to live the life of a traditional Chinese daughter-in-law, even learning to speak a perfect Ningbo Chinese. Even though she outwardly looked like a Westerner, she followed the ways of a traditional Chinese gentry household, in the process becoming even more silent than the typical Chinese daughter-in-law.
這一位俄國少女，經歷中國媳婦的歲月，說得一口標準的「寧波國語」，雖然有著外國人的容顏，卻依循中國世家大族的傳統風俗，變得比一般中國媳婦更加沈靜。