The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to TWO children—?”

It was the first time, in a manner, that I had known space and air and freedom, all the music of summer and all the mystery of nature. And then there was consideration—and consideration was sweet. Oh, it was a trap—not designed, but deep—to my imagination, to my delicacy, perhaps to my vanity; to whatever, in me, was most excitable.

An unknown man in a lonely place is a permitted object of fear to a young woman privately bred;