 In 1887 she retired from the stage for 12 months and went to London with Musgrove, returning to Australia in January 1888 to play in "Dorothy", with the composer, Alfred Cellier, conducting.In March 1888 she sang Marguerite in Charles Gounod's "Faust" at Melbourne for 24 consecutive nights, an extraordinary feat, but it was probably the beginning of the overstraining of her voice, which some years later she was to lose altogether.In April 1888 she played Elsie in "The Yeoman of the Guard", at a salary of £15 a week, her highest salary up to that time.