 He again ignored her and that very night Esther stated that, after all, she didn't love him.The reason he is now confiding in Macfarlane is that he is due for a routine operation, and he thought he saw in one of the nurses in the hospital the image of Mrs Haworth, who warned him not to go ahead with the surgery.Dickie subsequently dies during the operation and some impulse makes Macfarlane go to see Mrs Haworth at her moorland home.