When news reached them of the September 1792 massacres in Paris, Drennan suggested that when the forces of reaction were at the gates it was "no time to weigh nice points of morality"- McTier, however, confessed herself "turned, quite turned, against the French," and feared that the Revolution was "all farther than ever from coming to good". She grew wary of the "bloody cost" of subverting "all religion and order" for "an experiment of what can only be a doubtful improvement".