Neither had any intention of being restricted to domestic routines, as their mother would certainly have preferred; and fortunately they had, in their father, a loving champion of their desire to live more fully.

A rare spirit in a frail body, it was she who brought to us three younger ones the greater part of such mental stimulus as our very normal, ordinary lives ever knew.

[9] Following their return to London, John Galsworthy bought them a house at 1 Holland Park Avenue, the upper part of which was converted into a studio for Georg.

[11] Writer and poet Ralph Hale Mottram wrote of Sauter that she 'won my rather overawed provincial heart with the first glance of her beautiful grey-blue eyes...

Beautifully dressed, with just a touch to show her devotion to the arts and to the current internationalism that differentiated her from the average Kensington hostess, she made me welcome.

"[3] Dupré suggests that "It was with her that [John Galsworthy] first exchanged ideas on philosophy and religion, first began to consider questions of social justice, and even whether his own affluent circumstances, in a world where so many were poor and suffering, were tolerable".