Mr. de Winter is traveling to London. Mrs. de Winter cannot help but think what would happen if he were to get in a serious car accident. In fact, she plays the whole situation, up until the funeral out in her head. This causes her to be physically ill until she gets word from Robert that the porter has called and informed him that Mr. de Winter has indeed arrived safely. So much death foreshadowing!
Mrs. de Winter decides that she is going to take Jasper for a walk. They go to Happy Valley, but it isn't quite as beautiful as it once was, as the flowers are beginning to wilt and die. Jasper scurries along the path to the beach where Rebecca's cabin is located, and Mrs. de Winter follows as if she is annoyed. When they arrive at the cabin, she notices that the door is slightly cracked. Jasper goes wild and starts barking at someone who is hiding in the back corner. It's Ben. Mrs. de Winter instructs him to leave and to not take things that are not his, as it is not honest!
Ben says to Mrs. de Winter that she is not like the other one. ...here we go again... But then! Then! He tells her that he once was peeking in the windows of the cottage and a women who he described as, "tall and dark" "She gave you the feeling of a snake" (157) told him that he shall not do that anymore, or she shall put him in the insane asylum. She made him promise to say that he never saw this women there!
When Mrs. de Winter returns to the estate, she notices a red sports car parked behind the flowers, as if it was there so no one would see it. She saw that the shutters had been open in a room on the West Wing, and a man stood in the window. When the man saw Mrs. de Winter, he quickly retracted and Mrs. Danvers shut the curtains. Mrs. de Winter scurried inside and was hiding in the morning room. She thought she was in the clear, only until the man, Favell, walks in and finds her. He is very flirtatious with her and very suspicious. He makes Mrs. de Winter feel extremely uncomfortable. He refers to Mr. de Winter as "Max," something Mrs. de Winter things is inordinate. Before he departs, he asks for Mrs. de Winter not to say anything to Maxim. Both Robert and Frith were out on business and the maids were working in their rooms. Mrs. de Winter suspects that Mrs. Danvers is up to something, possibly thievery, and decides she's going to investigate the West Wing on her own!
My interpretation of Farvell is a little different than Mrs. de Winters. I think her may have had some type of relationship with Rebecca, thus, causing tension between him and Mr. de Winter. However, I'm not quite sure how Rebecca fits into the whole picture? Rebecca and Favell were incest cousins. Since Mrs. Danvers loved Rebecca so much, maybe she was an accomplice in getting him into the house at the perfect time! Just speculation, of course!
Vocabulary:
barmaid (164)- a bartender
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