She left so quickly that he wanted to chase but stopped himself.
Instead of leaving, Ferdinand stared at the door for a minute or two, just in case Arabella forgot something and returned.
However, even after a few more minutes, Arabella didn't pop back out of the door, so Ferdinand finally followed her instructions and headed to her inner chambers.
He immediately noticed that Arabella's covers had been changed to much thicker blankets.
Arabella's maids had likely changed it even before the snow began to fall because of the increasingly cold weather.
Arabella's beddings and covers were changed quite often. If Ferdinand visited her every night, the maids changed it every day, assuming that they did the deed.
Otherwise, it was changed bi-weekly. And Ferdinand noticed there was a pattern in the kind of bedding used.
