With Orson out of the picture since she had already ruled out that he was gone and seeing him again would be impossible, Calista, feeling a bit pissed off, decided to make everything bigger.
When you are rich and hold a higher position in society, no one would dare utter nonsense in front of you or even behind your back.
The walls have ears, and that was one thing that even a small kid was well aware of.
The house that she wanted to be built wasn't going to be small. She was going to build a house, one which wasn't going to attract a lot of unwanted attraction and suspicion, but at the same time a good one which would make others envious.
After so much deliberation, she decided that she would have a ranch house built as the main house. It was big, pleasing to the eye and didn't look out of place. That would be the house that she would live in.