Rebecca (novel) something happens.'" Du Maurier and her husband, "Tommy Browning, like Rebecca and Maximilian de Winter, were not faithful to one another." Subsequent to the novel's publication, "Jan Ricardo, tragically, died during the Second World War. She threw herself under a train." Childhood visits to Milton Hall, Cambridgeshire (then in Northamptonshire) home of the Wentworth-Fitzwilliam family, may have influenced the descriptions of Manderley. The famous opening line of the book "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." is an iambic hexameter. The last line of the book "And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the
Bedelia Du Maurier post-credits scene, sitting at a table and being served her own leg, in a similar manner to Lecter's previous victim Abel Gideon (Eddie Izzard). She hides a sharp fork in her lap and as the camera zooms out, it is revealed that the table is set for three. Bryan Fuller stated in an interview with "The A.V. Club" that he was inspired to name the character "Bedelia" after a character in "Creepshow", and because it has "a classic, old-world style to it". Fuller, an Alfred Hitchcock fan, said that he named character "Du Maurier" after Daphne du Maurier, the author