Chapter V

The Turn of the Screw 1000 words 2020-03-19 12:31:44

Chapter V

OH, SHE LET ME KNOW AS SOON AS, ROUND THE CORNER OF THE HOUSE, she loomed again into view. “What in the name of goodness is the matter —?” She was now flushed and out of breath.

I said nothing till she came quite near. “With me?” I must have made a wonderful face. “Do I show it?”

“You’re as white as a sheet. You look awful.”

I considered; I could meet on this, without scruple, any innocence. My need to respect the bloom of Mrs. Grose’s had dropped, without a rustle, from my shoulders, and if I wavered for the instant it was not with what I kept back. I put out my hand to her and she took it; I held her hard a little, liking to feel her close to me. There was a kind of support in the shy heave of her surprise. “You came for me for church, of course, but I can’t go.”

“Has anythin……

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