The open window

Vera has done her work to convince Framton into believing her aunt to be insane. This is said just before her aunt returns.

"Poor aunt always thinks that they will come back someday, they and the little brown spaniel that was lost with them, and walk in at that window just as they used to do....Do you know, sometimes on still, quiet evenings like this, I almost get a creepy feeling that they will all walk in through that window - "