She confides in the housekeeper Mrs Grose, but keeps this sighting from the children. Whilst out taking a walk one evening, the governess sees a man at the top of one of the towers, who gives her a terrible searching look before disappearing. As their uncle has forbidden her to contact him, and Miles himself is perfect in his attention to lessons and seems eager to please her, the governess decides that he couldn’t possibly have done anything requiring his expulsion and continues to indulge the children over the course of the summer. With this in mind, she makes her way to the Bly estate in Essex, but finds that both Flora and Miles are exceptionally charming and joyful children, despite the fact that Miles has been excluded from his school under undisclosed circumstances. The gentleman, who is their uncle, however, includes a strange addition to her appointment – that she under no circumstances should ever contact him about anything to do with the children. She takes the job of becoming the governess of two small children at a gentlemen’s country house, whose previous governess had recently died. One member of the party, rather than making a story up, decides to send for a manuscript he has possession of which is the testimony of a governess, recounting events that had happened to her many years previously. The Turn of the Screw is a short ghost story published in 1989, which begins with a gathering of people at a country house at Christmas telling each other ghost stories.
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