What does Mr. Hale describe when he knocks at the Wrights' door the previous day?

Queer is the only word Hale can think of to describe her appearance, and when the County Attorney takes out a notebook and pencil to take notes and asks him to clarify, Mr. Hale begins to speak more guardedly. She looked, Hale says, "as if she didn't know what she was going to do next.”