Chapter nineteen starts off rather slow.. The fog has lifted, Mrs. de Winter is playing chase tag trying to find Mr. de Winter and so forth! Mrs. de Winter is suddenly overcome with sickness; however, which foreshadows the sickening events to follow in this chapter... THEN, the coast guard sends a diver down to investigate the ship. He dives down and checks the boat for a hole. Mrs. de Winter then decides that she needs to go home and have lunch.
When she arrives home, she is greeted by one of the servants and asked him to prepare her tea. He does just as she asks and then lets her to relax. Robert returns to Mrs. de Winter and says that the Captain was on the line and needed to talk to Mr. de Winter urgently. She says that she doesn't know how long until he will return home. The Captain asks if he can come to see Mrs. de Winter and talk to her. He does just that and reveals such riveting news about something they found: "'It was the little boat belonging to the late Mrs. de Winter" (266). W..w...what! Then, "'There was a body in there, lying on the cabin floor...'" (267). So, the reader, along with Mrs. de Winter just suspect that Rebecca had someone along with her when she drown. Maybe she was having an affair that Maxim didn't know about?
Maxim returns home and is informed by the Captain. After his briefing, he enters the morning room with Mrs. de Winter. She cozies up to him and appologies for everything that she had done to him. He acts as usually, as if nothing were amiss, and forgives here. However, strangely, he keeps saying that he can no longer love her. He says it as if he is foreshadowing a divorce. He strongly repeats that, "Rebecca has won" (268). What?
How has she won you ask? Well:
"The women buried in the crypt is not Rebecca. It's the body of some unknown women, unclaimed, belonging no where. There never was an accident. Rebecca was not drowned at all. I killed her" (270). Stop the madness!!!! He did what?!.... "I shot Rebecca in the cottage in the cove. I carried her body to the cabin, and took the boat out that night and sunk it there, where they found it to-day. It's Rebecca who's lying dead there on the cabin floor. Will you look into my eyes that tell me that you love me now?" (270). Wait, what!!!!! I knew there was some kind of murderous activity going on, but I would have never guessed he killed her! Precious Rebecca! Maybe she was using her beauty for no good and running around with other men? Even better! Her cousin!
Vocabulary:
derogatory (265)- showing a disrespectful attitude
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