Suspicion arrises from the workers at the Manderely estate. Favell tells Mrs. de Winter about how he just cannot believe what has happened because she was so keen on the water. Mrs. Danvers has cut herself off from society and is locked in her room. The estate is in shock and is being bombarded with phone calls, which Mrs. de Winter has forwarded to the office. It was time for the inquest.
At the inquest, Mrs. de Winter decides that she is not going to go in the courthouse with Maxim and the others, but rather wait in the car. After a short while, she decides that she is going to get out and wait for them outside. A policeman asked who she is, and took her inside to a small waiting room. From there, Mrs. de Winter decides she wants to go inside and hear the trial. She goes in and Tabb is on the stand, telling his side of the story. He cannot stress enough that the boat was in perfect condition when she had it inspected and that he did not believe that anything was wrong with it.
From there, Tabb asks if he can explain something deeper. He says that the day of the recovery, he examined the boat and found that there were no rocks anywhere near where the boat was found. He saw that the three holes in the bottom of the boat were dilberately put there, and that the sea-cocks had been turned. The heat begins to rise in the room. Questions start to be fired at Mr. de Winter, when the connection is made that Rebecca was deliberately drowned in her cabin. All the while, Mrs. de Winter, Mrs. Danvers, Mr. Favell, and others are sitting through the questioning. Finally, the hardest question of all, "'Were relations between you and the late Mrs. de Winter perfectly happy?'" (316) is brought to the table. At this moment, Mrs. de Winter goes black, and she can hear Maxim yelling for someone to take her out, as she was going to faint.
It seems as though Tabb has sore feelings toward the whole situation because he believes that people think it's his fault for what happened. He says in this chapter, that he did indeed loose business because of it. I'm so, so curious to see what happens! Will the truth be revealed? Frank, Favell (technically), Mrs. de Winter, and Colonel Julyan know. Will Maxim go to jail? No. What about Mrs. Danvers, how will she play a role in the rest of the novel? She plays with fire.
Vocabulary:
moored (315)- make fast
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