 McIntosh became one of the last actress protégées of W. S. Gilbert's.She eventually lived with Gilbert and Lady Gilbert, and they considered her an "adopted" daughter, as they had no children of their own.After "Utopia", she appeared as Dorothy in a revival of Gilbert's "Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith" (1894) and created the role of Christina in Gilbert and Osmond Carr's "His Excellency" (1894–95).