She later had long discussions with CMS missionary William Edward Sladen Holland, who would write "The Goal of India" in 1920[2] persuaded her to rejoin Christianity.
It was difficult to find recruits and she would hold "purdah" parties where she could persuade mothers that their daughters should be educated.
On the evening of 20 May, near the French island of Ushant, off the coast of Brittany, in a heavy sea fog, her ship with 38 passengers and 290 crew, was rammed.
It was 7:30PM, and many of the passengers were still on deck, the dinner gong having just sounded, when the ship was sliced in two, and sunk by the French cargo steamer Seine.
[4] McNeile refused to enter a lifeboat because of the lack of capacity,[1] giving her seat to a woman whose children would have been orphaned and, kneeling on the deck in prayer, she went down with the ship; she was one of the 10 passengers and 88 crew who perished.