[5] Though Pauline's earliest years had been passed in the midst of Courts, where she had been surrounded with all the pleasantries and opportunities available, even as a child, she shrank from worldly things, and far from finding her happiness in them, she felt them a burden, and even despised them.

[6] Pauline's refined beauty -bearing a striking resemblance to the Madonna of Il Sodoma in Rome's Galleria Borghese- and her many accomplishments attracted much attention during the two seasons that she passed in London.

If she had followed her own inclination, she would have joined a religious Order, but she was advised that her duty lay at home with her widowed mother, and she accepted this responsibility.

[1] She began writing for The Catholic Fireside, in which appeared short lives of St. Cecilia, St. Benedict, St. Francis, and St. Ignatius, as well as several tales.

This required time and care to arrange, plan, and carry out all the construction details, and of equipping and fitting the church for service.

During that time, she relaxed nothing of the incessant round of daily minor duties; her choir, her catechisms, her club, her visitation of the poor, a visitation which was not that of a mere benefactress coming to give alms, but of a personal friend intimately acquainted with all the person's wants and trials, and deeply interested in each one of them.

[7] On 29 March 2001, the hundredth anniversary of Pauline's death, a memorial mass was said in her honor at Corpus Christi Church, Boscombe.