The Turn of the Screw

uette. She can hardly identify the figure from that distance, or perhaps it is a combination of her active imagination and the moonlight.
             The governess, believing that the figure in the tower was an intruder, became more aware to the reality that the children could be in some sort of danger. During her preparations for their walk to church, the governess went into the dining room to retrieve her gloves and discovered the same intruder, from her walk earlier, peering in at her through the window. This encounter took place the same way as the first one, a hard stare, but then his gaze went from her to other things in the room as if he were looking for something particular. "On the spot there came to me the added shock of certitude that it was not for me he had come t
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