The house was hers for other two months; and there were things of hers in it, she had left everything behind her.

If they had been removed, then this outrage was little short of felony, and she would invoke the law from whose clutches she herself had escaped.

Rachel had expected to be terrified in the house; she was filled insted with anger and indignation.
It was as she expected; not a trunk had been left; and the removal had taken place that very week.

This would account for the electric light being still intact.

Rachel discovered it by picking up a crumpled newspaper, which seemed to have contained bread and cheese; it did contain a report of the first day of the trial.