Rebecca

Maxim proposes to her and she accepts. Maxim offers to break the news to Mrs. Van Hopper and Mrs. Van Hopper is very upset with this news. In private, Mrs. Van Hopper accuses her of lying about her where-abouts and tells her that she thinks she is making a very big mistake. After all guests from the from the wedding have left, she & Maxim walk around the grounds of Manderley. They walk to the "Happy Valley", as Maxim calls it. The "Happy Valley" opens into a rocky beach. Jasper, the dog, runs out onto the rocks and onto the beach. Maxim refuses to go down there, so she goes after the dog. She finds some twine from a boathouse and leads the dog back to Maxim where she and Maxim have a fight. Maxim tells her that the beach and the boathouse bring back bad memories. The week that follows is very rainy and many of the women from the neighborhood come to visit her, to meet the new mistress of Manderley. She learns that the boathouse and the beach, that Maxim had gotten so upset about used to be Rebecca's. Rebecca's boat would be docked at the boathouse, the same boat she took out the night she drowned. Rebecca's body washed up two months later on a shore miles away. Maxim had to go to another town to identify her.
             A maid, Clarice, is hired for her. Clarice's shyness an unexperienceness, makes her feel more comfortable. She breaks a glass figure and hides it. She keeps the accident a secret until Mrs. Danavers blames one of the servants, then she tells the truth. Maxim finds the whole thing amusing, but she tells Maxim how she feels out of place because she does not know how to act around these new people. She is afraid her marriage with Maxim is failing. When it becomes summer, Maxim goes to London for a public dinner. She takes Jasper down to the beach again. She runs into a man named Ben, who is slightly retarted. Ben is at first afraid of her and asks her if she's going to send him to an asylum. Ben tells her she's not like the "other one".