On 21 July 1923, Margaret travelled to London with her brother Andrew, and to another parting, for he was emigrating to Canada. She then caught the tram to Notting Hill in West London, where she joined the Colettine Poor Clares at their convent, taking the religious name Sister Mary Francis of the Five Wounds. She did not apply to be an extern sister (those who deal with outside agencies on behalf of the community) but to become a cloistered Poor Clare. However, the community assessed her as a working-class girl with little secondary education, thinking that eight hours of singing the Divine office in Latin would be too much for her. Yet, Margaret was a new experience for the Poor Clare community: a modern woman whose ability to work and pray had emancipated her from her background. To the members of the community, most of whom who had never had to earn a living, (some coming from aristocratic families), Margaret and those like her, who were to enter religious life after the Great War, were something of a mystery.