On the evening of Friday, July 21, 1809, Harriet left the log house between 10 and 11 o'clock to seek the solitude of the Old Church on the Hill. In the light of the full moon and deepest silence, she went to the church with her arms crossed upon her breast, and tears of love and adoration fell while miserere and then te deum, prayers from her childhood, were said. Descending the mountain afterward, she declared to her sisters that she was a Catholic and that the cross of their Dearest was the desire of their soul, adding that she would never rest until he was hers.