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 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.
When they just got married, it was early spring, so it was still quite chilly, thus the beddings were still thick. They were less thick than the ones used in winter, but still thick enough to cope with the cold.
