From the autobiography of her son (Humphrey Pakington: Bid Time Return (1959), p.27): "... As a child she had spent some years on the continent, driving from place to place in the family landau, and by this means becoming fluent in several languages. She could paint, and carve in wood, and play the piano, and sing, and turn Tasso's Italian into English verse, but her family and her religion were more to her than any accomplishment..."
