How does the author use foreshadowing in A Jury of Her Peers?

A Jury of her Peers begins with a scene of foreshadowing. Martha Hale hesitates to leave her kitchen in a mess. Perhaps this is force of personal habit, but in the context of the story, when she is leaving her own messy kitchen to see another woman chastised almost as much for her messy kitchen as for the alleged murder of her husband; it becomes a significant clue to the way in which the story will unfold in the following pages.