Wu Mingneng, who earned his doctorate at Beijing University and now teaches at Yuanchi University, agrees that the tone of Xu's writing shows that he still had feelings for Zhang Youyi until he went abroad, "but he stopped liking her on the night of their wedding."
但北京大學古文獻博士、現任教元智大學的吳銘能卻認為，從《小腳與西服》的筆調看來，在徐志摩出國留學前，他與張幼儀並無感情，「從洞房花燭夜開始，徐志摩就不喜歡她」，他說。