 In the early months of World War I she was appointed by the Board of Education as H. M. Inspector of domestic science in South West England based in Bath.But she found civil service work uncongenial and, having played a major part in founding the Theosophical Fraternity in Education, she was invited to become Organising Secretary of the Theosophical Education Trust in 1915.In this role one of her main tasks was the consolidation of the Society’s educational work at Letchworth Garden City into St Christopher School, which was co-educational and boarding, with Isabel King as its Headmistress.