About this story
Then a man appears on the tower who matches nobody living, and the children may or may not be seeing him too. James built it to read two ways and went to his grave refusing to settle the question. You are the governess — and in this telling the figure speaks, which settles nothing either.
Who you’ll meet
Peter Quint - the dead valet whose apparition haunts Bly's tower and the children in the new governess's charge.
How it opens
The London house received afternoon through tall windows veiled with coal haze.
A brass clock divided the quiet while carriage wheels passed beyond the curtains.
The MasterYou understand that Bly is not a small place or an ordinary post.
The MasterIt asks for judgment before experience has made judgment easy.
I understand that the children have no parents living.
The MasterTheir parents died in India, and they are wholly in my charge.