Her lifelong friend, Miss Ruth Sites, was also returning to Foochow at that time.  So after securing a passport for Hue King Eng, in order that she might be able to return to America, the two girls made the trip together, spending Christmas in Yokohama, and enjoying a short visit to Tokio.  The steamer stopped for a day at Kobe, and there Miss Hue had the pleasure of visiting Dr. You Me King, then practising medicine under the Southern Methodist Mission.  Dr. You was the only Chinese woman who had ever left China for study up to the time of her own going.  They had a day at Nagasaki also, where several college mates from Ohio Wesleyan were working; and two days were spent in Shanghai, during which Miss Hue visited Dr. Reifsnyder’s splendid hospital.  The trip from Shanghai to Foochow was the last part of the long journey, and they were soon in the quiet waters of the Min River.  Miss Sites, writing back to America, said that she could never forget King Eng’s look as she exclaimed, “The last wave is past.  Now we are almost home.”  A brother and a brother-in-law came several miles down the river in a launch to meet her, and sedan chairs were waiting at the landing to take her to her home, where her parents were eagerly awaiting her.  A reception of welcome was given for her and Miss Sites a few days later, which was for her father and mother one of the proudest occasions of their lives.

Some of the missionaries had wondered whether so many years of residence in America would not have changed King Eng, and whether some of the luxuries she had enjoyed there might not have become a necessity to her.  With this in mind many little comforts unusual in a Chinese home had been put into her room.  “But,” one of them writes, “this was needless.”  King Eng was unchanged and all the attention she had received in America had left her unspoiled.  This was doubtless largely due to the purity of her purpose in going.  In bidding good-bye, a few years later, to some girls who were going to America for the first time, she said:  “Some people do not want girls to go to America to study because they think when the girls are educated they will be proud.  I think really we have nothing to be proud of.  We Chinese girls have such a good opportunity to go to another country to study, not because God loves us better than any other persons, but because He loves all our people in China.  Therefore He sends us to learn all the good things first, so that we may help our people.  The more favour we receive the more debt we owe the Chinese women and girls.  So wherever we go we must think how to benefit our people, and not do as we please, and then how can we be proud?”