It occurred to me as I was mourning my bland desert of future Sundays, that de Winter was the name chosen by Daphne du Maurier for her hero, and that Mamie McCoy (Milady de Winter) looks exactly as I have always imagined Rebecca (so also de Winter) - dark-haired, beautiful, charming but treacherous. She & Max probably had some rampant 'good times'
before he realised what a total bitch she was. Daphne du Maurier might well've read Dumas. What do you reckon?