 "A Psychological Interpretation of the Gospel" (January 1917) received a US publication in Boston and Moore-Bentley sailed to America later that year; she was repatriated at government expense in 1918 and blamed her disappointing time in America on the "Secret Service" and the Australian government's misrepresentation of her anti-conscription activities.She retired to Menai, writing poems and children's stories.In 1943 she was committed to the Mental Hospital at Stockton in Newcastle, where she died in 1953.