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", Slowly she faced me again. It wasn't simply that she said so,but that I knew she hadn't. ", At the image of this possibility Mrs. Grose for a moment collapsed,yet presently to pull herself together again, as if from the positiveforce of the sense of what, should we yield an inch, there wouldreally be to give way to. "Alone?". ", "In somebody's clothes. "And the little boy--does he look like her? This came home to me when, two days later, I drove overwith Flora to meet, as Mrs. Grose said, the little gentleman;and all the more for an incident that, presenting itselfthe second evening, had deeply disconcerted me.The first day had been, on the whole, as I have expressed,reassuring; but I was to see it wind up in keen apprehension.The postbag, that evening--it came late--contained a letterfor me, which, however, in the hand of my employer,I found to be composed but of a few words enclosing another,addressed to himself, with a seal still unbroken. ", At this she raised her eyes, which she had turned from me;I saw them fill with good tears. ", "I hope it will be confined to that!" There was a unanimous groanat this, and much reproach; after which, in his preoccupied way,he explained. Mrs. Grose was aware, I could judge,of what she had produced in me, and she followed it up with assurance. ", "Because the thing had been such a scare? "I don't do it!" "Miss Jessel--WAS infamous. There was a Sunday--to get on--when it rained with such forceand for so many hours that there could be no procession to church;in consequence of which, as the day declined, I had arrangedwith Mrs. Grose that, should the evening show improvement,we would attend together the late service. One wouldn't flatter a child. "But aren't they all--? He was the same--he was the same,and seen, this time, as he had been seen before, from the waist up,the window, though the dining room was on the ground floor, not goingdown to the terrace on which he stood. I had better have let itwait till morning, for it gave me a second sleepless night.With no counsel to take, the next day, I was full of distress;and it finally got so the better of me that I determinedto open myself at least to Mrs. Grose. Others want to carry documents around with them on their mobile phones and read while they are on the move. It's just what he WOULDN'T!" But I shall get it out of you yet!There was something in the boy that suggested to you," I continued,"that he covered and concealed their relation. He arrives, as you did, by the coach,under care of the guard, and is to be met by the same carriage.". "He was looking for someone else, you say--someone who was not you? "Ah, I haven't guessed! I couldn't--and I can't now!" I could takethe air in the court, at least, and there Mrs. Grose could join me.Perfectly can I recall now the particular way strength came to mebefore we separated for the night. "An actor!" ", "From where they come from! Agitation, in the interval, certainly had held meand driven me, for I must, in circling about the place, have walkedthree miles; but I was to be, later on, so much more overwhelmedthat this mere dawn of alarm was a comparatively human chill.The most singular part of it, in fact--singular as the rest had been--was the part I became, in the hall, aware of in meeting Mrs. Grose.This picture comes back to me in the general train--the impression,as I received it on my return, of the wide white panelled space,bright in the lamplight and with its portraits and red carpet,and of the good surprised look of my friend, which immediatelytold me she had missed me. I reflected acutely that the senseof such differences, such superiorities of quality, always, on the partof the majority--which could include even stupid, sordid headmasters--turn infallibly to the vindictive. I took the good creature in my arms and, after wehad embraced like sisters, felt still more fortified and indignant. ", "God help us, no. ", "That she should never trouble him--but never, never:neither appeal nor complain nor write about anything;only meet all questions herself, receive all moneys fromhis solicitor, take the whole thing over and let him alone.She promised to do this, and she mentioned to me that when,for a moment, disburdened, delighted, he held her hand,thanking her for the sacrifice, she already felt rewarded.". I can hear again, as I write,the intense hush in which the sounds of evening dropped.The rooks stopped cawing in the golden sky, and the friendlyhour lost, for the minute, all its voice. "I had supposed I had brushed away the ugly signs: but Icould literally--for the time, at all events--rejoice, under thisfathomless charity, that they had not entirely disappeared.To gaze into the depths of blue of the child's eyes and pronouncetheir loveliness a trick of premature cunning was to be guiltyof a cynicism in preference to which I naturally preferredto abjure my judgment and, so far as might be, my agitation.I couldn't abjure for merely wanting to, but I could repeatto Mrs. Grose--as I did there, over and over, in the small hours--that with their voices in the air, their pressure on one's heart,and their fragrant faces against one's cheek, everything fellto the ground but their incapacity and their beauty.It was a pity that, somehow, to settle this once for all,I had equally to re-enumerate the signs of subtlety that,in the afternoon, by the lake had made a miracle of my showof self-possession. she panted. I will definitely recommend this book to classics, horror lovers. She held me there a moment, then whisked up her apron again with herdetached hand. "Perhaps not. The great question, or one of these, is, afterward, I know,with regard to certain matters, the question of how longthey have lasted. ", She thought a minute. Here it was another affair; here, for many days after,it was a queer affair enough. With a kind of fury of intention. ", "More's the pity, then. ", "Yes, but that's just the beauty of her passion. "And YOU know, my dear! I pressed again, of course, at this. Of the positive identity of the apparition I would assure myselfas soon as the small clock of my courage should have ticked out theright second; meanwhile, with an effort that was already sharp enough,I transferred my eyes straight to little Flora, who, at the moment,was about ten yards away. ", At this, with one of the quick turns of simple folk, she suddenly flamed up. ", "It's too dreadful," cried Mrs. Grose, "to say such cruel things!Why, he's scarce ten years old. "No. It was plump, one afternoon, in the middle of my very hour:the children were tucked away, and I had come out for my stroll.One of the thoughts that, as I don't in the least shrink nowfrom noting, used to be with me in these wanderings was that itwould be as charming as a charming story suddenly to meet someone.Someone would appear there at the turn of a path and would standbefore me and smile and approve. "For dreadful--dreadfulness!". I had made up my mind. Of what did she die?Come, there was something between them. "You see how he could see," I meanwhile went on. one of the ladies asked. ", I held her tighter. she cried. This person proved, on herpresenting herself, for judgment, at a house in Harley Street,that impressed her as vast and imposing--this prospectivepatron proved a gentleman, a bachelor in the prime of life,such a figure as had never risen, save in a dream or an old novel,before a fluttered, anxious girl out of a Hampshire vicarage.One could easily fix his type; it never, happily, dies out.He was handsome and bold and pleasant, offhand and gay and kind.He struck her, inevitably, as gallant and splendid,but what took her most of all and gave her the courage sheafterward showed was that he put the whole thing to her asa kind of favor, an obligation he should gratefully incur.She conceived him as rich, but as fearfully extravagant--saw him all in a glow of high fashion, of good looks,of expensive habits, of charming ways with women.He had for his own town residence a big house filledwith the spoils of travel and the trophies of the chase;but it was to his country home, an old family place in Essex,that he wished her immediately to proceed.

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