The Turn of the Screw Chapter 12

In which the governess confides in Mrs Grose her increasingly urgent suspicions about the children’s strange behaviour and the sinister influences she believes are at work around them, insisting they are ensnared in a dark design beyond ordinary experience. Together they contemplate the daunting prospect of seeking help from the absent uncle, weighing the risks of intervention and the governess’s own pride against the looming peril that shadows the household.