Chapter 13 Summary

Maxim goes to London for a couple of days for a dinner. The author is dreadfully afraid that Maxim will suffer some sort of accident while on route to the city. She receives a message that he got to his hotel safely, and is overjoyed. She decides to go on a walk with Jasper. She visits Happy Valley and then Jasper runs off to the cove, just as he had before. She goes to fetch him and notices the cottage door looks ajar. Jasper runs inside and begins barking at something. Ben, the slow man she had talked to before, is hiding in the cottage. He says a couple of broken phrases that do not make much sense to the author. She attributes it to the fact that he is slow, mentally.

As she is walking back to Manderley she notices that the...