Rebecca Part VI

Mrs De Winter overhears Maxim telling off Mrs Danvers for allowing Jack Favell, Rebecca's cousin to visit the house. She has met him a few days earlier and not liked him, as he seems vulgar and coarse... and he does not seem the type of man to be related to the elegant Rebecca. But she has been afraid to let Maxim know that she has met him. She fears talking to him about Rebecca. Shortly afterwards, one of their guests suggests that the De Winters should revive the costume ball at Manderley. Maxim is not keen on it, saying he doesn't like costume balls. However, Mrs De Winter tries to get enthused about it, hoping that she will seem more like a normal mistress of Manderley if she can help to arrange a big social event. The organisation is largely done by Mrs Danvers and the servants and Mrs De Winter finds herself getting in the way. She tells Maxim that she will have a wonderful costume.. but she can't think of anything. Then Mrs Danvers suggests that she copies one of the pictures in the gallery. There is one of an ancestor of Maxim's, a young girl in a white dress. Mrs De Winter and her lady's maid, Clarice, conspire together to get the costume done in London..... and keep it a secret.