How does the author use foreshadowing in the novel, A World of Curiosities?

The author uses a good deal of foreshadowing to increase the tension in the novel. This foreshadowing is generally foreboding in nature. At the end of Chapter 34, for instance, Beauvoir and Gamache sit up waiting for Fleming “And then, at almost nine p.m., there was a knock on the door” (326). Penny uses this to suggest that it is Fleming who is at the door. In reality, it is Amelia who is there. In another example, in Chapter 24, Gamache has just heard Robert humming the hymn when a verse from Ruth’s poetry comes to his mind: “And now it is now, and the dark thing is here. / The waiting, it seemed, was over” (229).