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 finds the idea irritating and boring but 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.
However the organisation is largely done by Mrs Danvers and the servants and Mrs De Winter finds herself getting in the way. She tries to sound more eager, telling 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 of one of the De Winter ancestors, a young girl in a white dress. Mrs De Winter and her lady's maid conspire together to get the costume done in London..... and keep it a secret...
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