Bent was made London secretary and later co-edited an update of the guidebook,[30] with Charlotte Hussey, a fellow Irishwoman, who was the official custodian of the tomb in Jerusalem. Bent and Hussey fell out with the local consular official, John Dickson, which resulted ultimately in questions to the House of Commons[31] and an enquiry. Documents in Bent’s Foreign Office files contain comments such as: ‘A most tiresome and persistent woman’; ‘Could not the F.O. cause these women to be ejected from the place?’; ‘It would be an excellent thing if Mrs. Bent could be prosecuted for libel’; ‘She is a very vindictive and obnoxious person, and has given the unfortunate Consul for a long time past a great deal of trouble by her vicious proceedings’.[32] Further incidents included a solitary and potentially dangerous outing to the salt deserts around Jebel Usdum, south of Jerusalem, where her horse rolled on her, breaking her leg.