 She wrote, "I only do this to save time.I buy ready-made suits and I can use the time saved this way to do more work" but, given that she includes many characters who cross-dress in her fiction (see her novels Volontaire and Frère Pélage, for example) she was clearly fascinated with the subject of cross-dressing and her motives appear to be more complex than mere convenience.Dieulafoy considered herself an equal to her husband, but was also fiercely loyal to him.