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The Turn of the Screw
Chapters 6-10
by Andrew, Sarah, Maddy, and Isabel
Summary
"'[Quint] was looking for someone else, you
say- someone who was not you?' [Mrs. Grose]
asked. 'He was looking for little Miles,'"
(Chapter 6). viii
"I was there to protect and defend the little
creatures. Their helplessness had suddenly
become very clear...I began to watch them
fearfully. This hidden excitement might
have turned almost to madness," (Chapter
6). viii
Summary
"And the lake was the 'Sea of Azof'... I noticed
that someone was watching us from the
other side... And I had a certain feeling that
the other person should not be there. It
might have been [someone from the house].
But I was sure that it was not," (Chapter 6).
ix
"Within a minute all sounds from [Flora] had
stopped. And, in that minute, she had
turned her back to the water," (Chapter 6).
Summary
"'Another person-- this time. But a figure just
as ugly and evil: a woman in black, pale and
frightful,'" (Chapter 7). x
"'Was she someone you have never seen
before?' 'Yes. But someone the child has.
Someone you have.' Then, to show how I had
thought about it: 'The first governess- the
one who died," (Chapter 7). x
Summary
"For a period of several months, Quint and the boy had
always been together. Mrs. Grose had actually
suggested that the association was not proper,"
(Chapter 8). x
"'Anyhow, while Miles was with the man--' 'Miss Flora was
with the woman. They all liked the arrangement!'"
(Chapter 8). x
"They were at this period extravagantly and
preternaturally fond of me; which, after all, I could
reflect, was no more than a graceful response in
children perpetually bowed down over and hugged"
Summary
"The apparition had reached the landing
halfway up ... at sight of me, it stopped
short and fixed me exactly as it had fixed
me from the tower and from the garden.
...He was absolutely, on this occasion, a
living, detestable, dangerous presence."
(Chapter 9) xii
Summary
"...Flora's little bed was empty...I dashed at the place in which I had left her
lying...the white curtains had been deceivingly pulled forward...I noticed
an agitation of the window-blind, and the child, ducking down, emerged
rosily from the other side of it" (Chapter 10). xiii
"I once recognized the presence of a woman seated on one of the lower steps
with her back presented to me, her body half-bowed and her head, in an
attitude of woe, in her hands. I had been the but an instant, however,
when she vanished without looking round at me." (Chapter 10) xiv
"The presence on the lawn - I felt sick as I made it out - was poor little Miles
himself" (Chapter 10). xv
The Governess (Internally)
"I confess I rather applaud myself as I look
back!"
"I was there to protect and defend the little
creatures ... we were united in our danger.
They had nothing but me ... The more I saw,
the less they would."
"It didn't last as suspense—it was superseded
by horrible proofs."
The Governess (Internally)
"To hold her perfectly in the pinch of that, I
found I had only to ask her how, if I had
'made it up,' I came to be able to give ... a
picture disclosing, to the last detail, their
special marks"
The Governess and Mrs. Grose
"[Mrs. Grose] accepted the truth as I gave it to
her. She showed no doubt of my mental
health," (Chapter 6).
"'I was not responsible for them!' [Mrs. Grose]
replied unhappily...'The master sent [Quint]
here and he was responsible for everything.
...even for them.' 'Them-that creature?' I
almost screamed. 'And you could endure it!'
'No, I could not. And I can't now!'" (Chapter
6).
The Governess and Mrs. Grose
"'They know- it is too awful: they know, they
know!' 'And what do they know--?' Her voice
was unbelieving," (Chapter 7).
"'You don't believe me?' She turned right and
left in her confused unhappiness. 'How can
you be sure?' [she asked]. In my nervous
condition, I became impatient. 'Then ask
Flora. She is sure!' Then I caught myself. 'No,
for God’s sake, don't!' She will say she is
not. She will tell a lie!" (Chapter 7).
The Governess and Ms. Grose
"She seemed to agree to this, but still
silently," (Chapter 7).
"...'They all liked the arrangement!' This
agreed with my own ideas too well,"
(Chapter 8).
The Children
""but I was in these days literally able to find
a joy in the extraordinary flight of heroism
the occasion demanded of me....there
would be a greatness in letting it be
seen...that I could succeed where many
another girl might have failed. I was there
to protect and defend the little creatures in
the world the most bereaved and the most
loveable" (41).
The Children
"They had nothing but me, and I - well, I had
them...I began to watch them in a stifled
suspense, a disguised tension, that might
well, had it continued too long, have turned
to something like madness." (41).
"she contrived... to let me alone without
appearing to drop me and to accompany
without appearing to oppress...[their
amusement] they seemed actively to
prepare and that employed me as an active
admirer" (42).
Children- Flora
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"I was determined by a sense that within a
minute all spontaneous sounds from her had
dropped; and in the second by the
circumstance that also within the minute
she had, in her play, turned her back to the
water" (43).
Governess later claims that Flora saw ghost.
Children
Mrs Grose: "I've never seen one like him. He
did what he wished.'
'With her?'
'With them all.'" (47).
"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 show
of self-possession" (50).
Children
"His having lied and been impudent are, I
confess, less engaging specimens than I had
hoped to have from you of the outbreak in
him of the little natural man. Still...they
must do, for they make me feel more than
ever that I must watch" (53).
Children
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Governess interrogation of Flora to
understand why she left bed.
"She absolutely declined to be puzzled; she
turned her eyes to the flame of the candle
as if the question were...irrelevant" (63).
unsolved mystery of Miles's excursion to
lawn
The Ghosts
"There was no ambiguity in anything; none whatever at
least in the conviction I from one moment to another
found myself forming as to what I should see straight
before me and across the lake as a consequence of
raising my eyes."
"...and in the midst of it she came."
"Came how - from where?"
"From where they come from!"
"Nothing was more natural than that these things should
be the other things they absolutely were not" (Chapter
6).