![]() She also takes comfort in the welcoming demeanor of Mrs. Her first meeting with Flora, the beautiful and well-mannered young girl for whom she would be responsible at Bly, calms her worries still more. The governess worries that she may have made the wrong decision when she accepted the position, but when she sees the estate for the first time, she falls quickly in love with its beautifully put together exterior. ![]() The partygoers excitedly accept his offer, and the following night he reads to them the governess’s story, at which point the narration shifts to the governess’s point of view. He has access to the governess’s written account of her experience, and he offers to go get it and read it to the partygoers. One of the partygoers, Douglas, says that he knows a particularly sinister ghost story about a governess’s time spent taking care of a wealthy Londoner’s niece and nephew at a country estate haunted by two ghosts. ![]() The book opens with an unnamed narrator’s description of a party held one Christmas Eve in England at which some friends have gathered to share ghost stories. ![]()
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