Some people said that she had made for herself a position in Society by her pose as a philanthropic and highly religious woman; others said that she really was the highly moral being, living only to do good, that she seemed to be.
Unos afirmaban que madame Stal fingía y se hacia un pedestal de su fama de mujer virtuosa y piadosa, mientras otros sostenían que en realidad, en el fondo de su alma, era un ser virtuoso y de moral acendrada, que vivía sólo para el bien del prójimo como aparentaba.