Rebecca XI

 Mrs De Winter almost faints during the inquest.  She is divided between her happiness that Maxim loves her and her fear that his killing of Rebecca will come out.  After the legalities are concluded Maxim has to attend his wife's funeral, but while Mrs De Winter is waiting for him to come home, Jack Favell turns up.  He insists on seeing Maxim, who comes in with Frank Crawley. 

It is plain that Favell has blackmail on his mind.... He tells Maxim that he does not beleive the inquest verdict.. that Rebecca would not have killed herself - But he says that he would not proffer any proof of this, if Maxim is willing to pay him a regular income.  Maxim wants to throw him out but he holds his nerve and sends for Colonel Julyan, the local magistrate.  

When Julyan arrives he is sympathetic to Maxim, as a fellow gentleman and friend and is not willing to believe the words of a cad like Favell...  But Jack Favell has some evidence..  He claims that he and Rebecca were lovers and that he had hoped to marry her and that Maxim probably killed her out of jealousy.

  He also says that he has a note from her that suggests she did not have suicide on her mind,   He produces the note which was delivered to him in London after Rebecca had left the city and returned to Cornwall on the fatal night.  She asks Favell to come to Manderley to the cottage as she wants to speak to him. 

Maxim is afraid of the note, which does seem to do away with the suicide plan... But he holds his nerve and asks for more information.  Jack claims that Ben a local man who has mental difficulties, used to see him and Rebecca together at the cottage and can confirm that they were lovers... Ben however when spoken to, is clearly afraid to say anything at all, and claims he knows nothing.   Favell asks to see Mrs Danvers, but she too is not all that helpful.. She is not willing to confirm that Rebecca was Favell's one true love and mistress.. She claims that Rebecca despised men and that if she amused herself with any of them, it didn't mean very much.  However she looks at Rebecca's old diary and does find a number that is unfamiliar to her.. which may give some information on how she spent her last day....