While in the US, she wrote a letter to her mentor Hu Shih, stating that she had originally planned to return to China after finishing her studies. But she could not have foreseen that the world situation would change so drastically, and this left her in a quandary about what course to take.
她在美國曾寫信向恩師胡適提及，原以為唸完書就可回去中國，怎料世局變化太大，讓她有「不知何去何從」之感。