Its kids after all, reading too much into their words, trying to see a reality, which only she could see, through words of innocent kids. Yet the house maid, tells her all the names with the details she gives of the ghosts and gives a story which can never be verified, who will account for that. Yet her utterances towards the end, to the kids sound too heavy and kids response is to the literal question than the intended meaning she deciphers
and is trying to portray ""While you," I concurred, "caught your death in the night air!" "...it seems too much of drama on only 1 person's account.
Its interesting why would kids arrange amongst themselves to assure the governess that "he was BAD"!. Innocence? but still ..had they seen the fear in her that made her sit at night and weave stories around ghostly stories. If they had, why were they so silent about it? Who told them to be non-expressive about the ghosts, if they were talking to them, as the natural reaction of kids is to talk and express..in words..in actions..jumping, running , dancing. Which these kids strangely are shown never to indulge in...
"then I caught the suppressed intellectual creak with which she conscientiously turned to take from me a view of the back of the tapestry. I had made her a receptacle of lurid things, but there was an odd recognition of my superiority—my accomplishments and my function—in her patience under my pain. She offered her mind to my disclosures as, had I wished to mix a witch's broth and proposed it with assurance, she would have held out a large clean saucepan. This had become thoroughly her attitude by the time that, in my recital of the events of the night, I reached the point of what Miles had said to me when, after seeing him, at such a monstrous hour, almost on the very spot where he happened now to be, I had gone down to bring him in; choosing then, at the window, with a concentrated need of not alarming the house, rather that method than a signal more resonant. I had left her meanwhile in little doubt of my small hope of representing with success even to her actual sympathy my sense of the real splendor of the little inspiration with which, after I had got him into the house, the boy met my final articulate challenge."
Interestingly she reflects at one point on the believability of Mrs Grose, that if she had said any lame thing at that point of time, she would have believed in it and would have justified..something on these lines" Maybe it is to answer and undo reader's own doubt about how Mrs Grose believes in everything told, without even trying for once to find out the truth on her own, or maybe without casting a single doubt on sanity of the governess :D
"And if I am myself, you mean? That's charming news to be sent him by a governess whose prime undertaking was to give him no worry."
and is trying to portray ""While you," I concurred, "caught your death in the night air!" "...it seems too much of drama on only 1 person's account.
Its interesting why would kids arrange amongst themselves to assure the governess that "he was BAD"!. Innocence? but still ..had they seen the fear in her that made her sit at night and weave stories around ghostly stories. If they had, why were they so silent about it? Who told them to be non-expressive about the ghosts, if they were talking to them, as the natural reaction of kids is to talk and express..in words..in actions..jumping, running , dancing. Which these kids strangely are shown never to indulge in...
"then I caught the suppressed intellectual creak with which she conscientiously turned to take from me a view of the back of the tapestry. I had made her a receptacle of lurid things, but there was an odd recognition of my superiority—my accomplishments and my function—in her patience under my pain. She offered her mind to my disclosures as, had I wished to mix a witch's broth and proposed it with assurance, she would have held out a large clean saucepan. This had become thoroughly her attitude by the time that, in my recital of the events of the night, I reached the point of what Miles had said to me when, after seeing him, at such a monstrous hour, almost on the very spot where he happened now to be, I had gone down to bring him in; choosing then, at the window, with a concentrated need of not alarming the house, rather that method than a signal more resonant. I had left her meanwhile in little doubt of my small hope of representing with success even to her actual sympathy my sense of the real splendor of the little inspiration with which, after I had got him into the house, the boy met my final articulate challenge."
Interestingly she reflects at one point on the believability of Mrs Grose, that if she had said any lame thing at that point of time, she would have believed in it and would have justified..something on these lines" Maybe it is to answer and undo reader's own doubt about how Mrs Grose believes in everything told, without even trying for once to find out the truth on her own, or maybe without casting a single doubt on sanity of the governess :D
"And if I am myself, you mean? That's charming news to be sent him by a governess whose prime undertaking was to give him no worry."
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