Mrs. Ahok soon began again the work among the upper class women which had been her great joy, heartily co-operating with both American and English missionaries in their efforts for these women.  Miss Ruth Sites, of the American Methodist Mission, was very eager to do something for the young girls of this class, and Mrs. Ahok gladly lent her influence, with such effect that Miss Sites was enabled to start a small school.  Here a good education was given to the daughters of the official class, and Christianity was so taught and lived that by the end of the second year all but two of the pupils were Christians.  Miss Sites wrote also of the help that Mrs. Ahok gave in taking her to call in the homes which it would otherwise have been impossible for her to reach.

The Church of England Mission had for some years maintained a school for the daughters of the Chinese Christians in Foochow; but a few years after Mrs. Ahok’s return from England they began to feel the urgent need of another school, where girls from non-Christian families could be educated.  When Mrs. Ahok’s advice was asked, she heartily approved of the plan and advised that it be attempted, offering to rent her home to the Mission for a school building, and promising also to help in the teaching.  Moreover she was invaluable in interesting her non-Christian friends in the school, and it rapidly grew from four to forty-five, with such prospects of future prosperity that the house next door to Mrs. Ahok’s was also rented, and a new dormitory and dining-room were built.

Girls brought up in non-Christian homes are of course very different from the daughters of Christian parents, and Mrs. Ahok warned the missionaries at the outset that they would be very difficult to manage, and herself drew up the school rules.  Her services were of the greatest value, both in this school and in the School for High Class Girls established by the Church of England Zenana Society a few years later, of which she was made the matron.  “She makes the girls love her, and her influence over them is good,” wrote one of the teachers.  “A fortnight ago some money was stolen out of a drawer.  I was very sad about it, and the girls were urged to confess, but until yesterday no one spoke.  Yesterday Amy told Mrs. Ahok that she had taken it and asked her to tell me.”  Again she wrote:  “Mrs. Ahok makes a very good matron of the school, and an excellent hostess to the many visitors who come to see the school.  Whenever an opening is given Mrs. Ahok and I return the call, and usually get good opportunities of delivering the message.”

Testimony is also borne to Mrs. Ahok’s effective work among the mothers of the pupils of the school.  One of her great joys is a weekly meeting in that wing of the Church Missionary Society’s hospital which was erected in memory of her husband, and set aside for the use of women patients.