She had met David Wilkie and others vied for her attention but she saw her future in the Catholic Church after talking with Augustine Baines.

[1] The following years she was in England where she met Canadian catholic James Gillis in Hammersmith in 1832.

Trail became Agnes Xavier and when she returned to Edinburgh in 1834 she was accompanied by two lay sisters and seven French nuns.

[1] Tail would paint miniatures in the convent and teach drawing but importantly she socialised with upper- and middle-class women.

Trail also created paintings of leading Catholics including Bishop Gillis.