When Desiree mother comes to visit what hints are there that something is bothering her about the baby

The baby's appearance unsettles her. Madame Valmonde has not seen the baby for a month and when she arrives to L’Abri she is shocked to see the baby's appearance.

When she reached L’Abri she shuddered at the first sight of it, as she always did. It was a sad looking place, which for many years had not known the gentle presence of a mistress, old Monsieur Aubigny having married and buried his wife in France, and she having loved her own land too well ever to leave it.