"Would to God you would speak and tell me your secret, Fanny! … Oh, I hope, hope it is not true that there are two of you! … If I could only look in upon you for one little minute, I should know all!" A few moments passed, and she added, slowly, "And I will."
My eyes immediately skimmed over the italicized words here, and my first assumption was that "And I will" was a response from Fanny (either her ghost or Bathsheba's imagination). And it's phrased in a way that it could be a repsponse from Fanny. Perhaps she is speaking through Bathsheba. Bathsheba certainly is possessed. By lust/rage/jealousy/hurt. By an inner knowledge that she can not compete with this dead woman
