It is said that one day while he was driving along a country road a woman rushed out of a cottage, calling for a priest for someone who lay dangerously ill inside. Lord Dunboyne answered her "I am a priest", and, entering the cottage, he heard the dying person's confession. From that moment till the end of his life he conformed again, at least, privately, to the Catholic faith.
A woman urgently sought a priest for someone seriously ill in a cottage. Lord Dunboyne, who was driving by, identified himself as a priest and entered the cottage to hear the dying person confess their sins. From that point forward, he remained faithful to Catholicism, at least privately.