The governess is unreliable

The governess is unreliable

1. "Young, untried, nervous"

2. "Succession of flights and drops"

3. "I'm rather easily carried away"

4. I was under a charm

   • "I was under the spell"

5. "I was off my guard"

6. "Dazzled by their loveliness"

7. "I know, I know, I know"

8. "Offering myself bravely"

9. "Charming story suddenly to meet someone"

10. "His handsome face"

11. "Find a joy in the extraordinary flight of heroism

12. "I was there to protect and defend"

13. "I was a screen"

14. "I walked in a world of their invention"

15. "They know - it's too monstrous"

16. "Why all that we know"

17. "I don't know what i don't see"

18. "I don't change - I simply make it out"

19. "How proud I have been to serve him"

20. "There was many a corner round which I expected to come upon Quint"

21. "Strange steps of my obsession"

22. "I always broke down"

23. http://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/James/Turn_Screw.pdf

24. "She suffers the torments (referring to Jessel)

25. "She's there, she's there!"

26. "He has an odd way (referring to the Master)

27. "Most beautiful child I had ever seen"

28. "One of Raphael's holy infants"

29. "That's what Flora knows"

30. "She could put her little hand [...] spot that ached"

31. "Their absolutely unnatural goodness"

32. "I see nobody. I see nothing. I never have"

33. "Take me away [...] oh take me away from her"

34. "Where on earth do you see anything?"

35. "Little gentleman

36. "Incredibly beautiful"

37. "He was too fine and fair for the little horrid unclean school-world

38. The governess is fickle and frequently switches back to being absolutely sure of their innocence

39. She embraces the children. The ambiguity of the text allows these displays of affection to appear both harmless and inappropriate

40. Her volatile relationship with the children renders her an unreliable narrator and dubious source of information

41. The governesses overabundant concern for the children and her violent suspicions of them may be regarded as her being the villain

42. Her crush on her employer and nervous exhaustion from being in charge of two strange children result in an elaborate and ultimately dangerous fabrication or hallucination