Foreshadowing - How do the actions/setting hint about the events which occur in the last text.

In Saki's short story "The Open Window", the character of
Vera is a 15 year old girl who seems to enjoy mischief in the form of telling stories
that cause fear. As the story reads,

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Romance at short notice was her
speciality.

This means that
Vera's mind is always on the go, especially if it means creating fantasies in her
mind.

In the story, Vera tells Frampton (a house guest
coming to rehabilitate his nerves) about the reason behind her aunt's leaving the window
open on a foggy day. She claims that the reason is that her aunt has a fascination with
her husband and her husband's brother, who supposedly disappeared years ago during a
hunting trip.

According to Vera, the window is left open in
hope of their return. However, this is not the truth: The window is simply open for no
reason at all. The men are not missing either, they are actually hunting outside. Vera
is making everything up so that, when the men return, Frampton would think it is the
ghosts of the men coming back.

The moment in the story
where you can almost foreshadow the disclosure at the end is at the beginning, when Vera
tells Framptom on account of her aunt's absence from the home:

MY aunt will
be down presently, Mr. Nuttel," ..... in the meantime you must try and put up with
me.

Since a foreshadowing is
what tells us that something might be happening sometime in the story, the best thing we
can get from this specific foreshadowing is that Vera is already determined to cause
Frampton some sort of grief. Often, foreshadowing is easier to identifywhen you read the
story twice. When you read "The Open Window" twice, the giveaway is that Vera basically
warns Framptom from the get go that he will have to put up with
her.