Perhaps she carried in her heart an unfailing faith that Providence could not deny her protection when she was enabling the Dean to give the benefit of his great gifts to the world.
Their house stood on the same hill as Hope College, the highest point in the rising ridge of bluffs along the Lake Shore at Delphi.

It was built of dark red brick, a square double edifice, with long French windows and two rotunda shaped wings, somewhat in the French style.

A grove of pine trees almost hid it from view on its street side, the stately Norway pines that Kit always loved.

The back of the house looked directly out over the lake, and the land here was frankly left to nature.

Trees, grass and underbrush rioted at will, until they suddenly ended on the brow of the bluff, where there was a sheer declivity of sand to the beach.