Mrs De Winter feels terror that her marriage is now a complete failure, and wonders how to face Maxim after the ball....
The following day, however, Beatrice tries to reassure her that all will be well but has to leave, and there is a ship foundering in the local bay so Maxim is out trying to coordinate the rescue efforts. She is left alone. When divers go down into the water, one of them gets a horrible fright.. He discovers the boat that Rebecca had sailed in, and there is a body in it......
Captain Searle, the Harbour master, tells Maxim and his wife about the body. She thinks at first that Rebecca must have been sailing with someone else and that body was still in the cabin while Rebecca's had been washed out to sea. Maxim in his grief mis identified a strange woman as Rebecca. They learn that there will have to be an inquest, to determine who the body is and how the accident happened. When Searle has gone, Maxim tells Mrs De Winter the truth, that it is his wife who is lying on the cabin floor.. and that he killed her.....
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