 She looked after her invalid mother and later her ageing father, and helped to bring up her brother's three children after his early death.For more than 30 years, from about 1916 to the late 40s, she was engaged in the Girls' Guildry, an alternative organisation to the Girl Guides, founded in 1900 by Dr William Francis Somerville and originally associated with the Church of Scotland, but later spread over other parts of Britain and the Empire.She was for a period in the 30s President of its West London Centre, and contributed many interesting articles to the Guildry magazines (History of the Girls' Guildry.