The De Winters start their drive back to Cornwall. Mrs De Winter is hoping that now that the mystery of Rebecca has been solved, she and Maxim can settle down there and have a family.. but both of them feel uneasy. Maxim stops to call the house and finds that Mrs Danvers has been moving her things out of her room and that she's left...
He hopes this is a good sign that she has given up on trying to make him and his wife miserable in her anger at Rebecca's death. They decide to drive through the night until they reach Manderley... but as they approach the house, they realise that it is on fire. Mrs Danvers' final act of revenge (or Rebeccas?) has been to destroy the house.
We learn that the De Winters are living abroad, in exile from England.. some time afterwards. They travel, stay in small hotels and make no friends... Mrs De Winter misses England very much but she is happy in her devotion to her husband. She loves him, she knows that he loves her and that she will be secure with him but they can never go back to Manderley.
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