A lot of the dialogue is very roundabout and they don't talk about things head on. I think that might just be a, that's kind of a Victorian trope that we take for granted because there's a sense of impropriety. The implication by the end of the book is that he was maybe coming on to girls in school. So that kind of gets wrapped up in her trying to save him from this ghostThat at least accused accusations imply that he did something sexual with the boy.
What makes a good ghost story? If you said creepy children, gothic architecture, and unreliable narrators, then Henry James has you covered The Turn of the Screw.
This week Andrew mangles words, Craig gets lost in James' Victorian prose, and the two solve the mystery surrounding the ghosts of Bly.
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