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1,826 | 42_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Utterson goes immediately to Dr. Jekyll's residence and is admitted by Poole, who takes him out of the house and across a former garden to the "dissecting rooms." They enter, climb a flight of stairs, enter a door covered with imitation red felt and, at last, Utterson sees Dr. Jekyll, "looking deadly sick." He is a... | [
"INCIDENT OF THE LETTER",
"IT was late in the afternoon, when Mr. Utterson found his way to\nDr. Jekyll's door, where he was at once admitted by Poole, and\ncarried down by the kitchen offices and across a yard which had\nonce been a garden, to the building which was indifferently known\nas the laboratory or the ... |
1,827 | 42_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Despite the fact that thousands of pounds are offered for Sir Danvers' murderer, Scotland Yard receives no information. Seemingly, Hyde has vanished. Yet, if the man himself has disappeared, past stories about him continue to surface. More tales about his past acts of cruelty are uncovered, and a general sense of Hyde'... | [
"REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON",
"TIME ran on; thousands of pounds were offered in reward, for the\ndeath of Sir Danvers was resented as a public injury; but Mr. Hyde\nhad disappeared out of the ken of the police as though he had never\nexisted. Much of his past was unearthed, indeed, and all\ndisreputable: t... |
1,828 | 42_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Utterson and Mr. Enfield are taking one of their customary Sunday strolls and, by chance, their path takes them past "that door," the door that they agreed never to speak of again. They pause now and look at it. Enfield thinks that Mr. Hyde will never be heard of again, and Utterson is quick to agree. He then asks ... | [
"INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW",
"IT chanced on Sunday, when Mr. Utterson was on his usual walk\nwith Mr. Enfield, that their way lay once again through the\nby-street; and that when they came in front of the door, both\nstopped to gaze on it.",
"\"Well,\" said Enfield, \"that story's at an end at least. We shall\nnev... |
1,829 | 42_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One evening after dinner, Utterson is sitting peacefully beside his fireplace when he receives a visit by a very agitated and upset Mr. Poole. He offers Poole a glass of wine to calm him, and although Poole accepts it, he neglects to drink it as he hesitatingly tells Utterson about his fears concerning Dr. Jekyll. Pool... | [
"THE LAST NIGHT",
"MR. UTTERSON was sitting by his fireside one evening after\ndinner, when he was surprised to receive a visit from Poole.",
"\"Bless me, Poole, what brings you here?\" he cried; and then\ntaking a second look at him, \"What ails you?\" he added; \"is the\ndoctor ill?\"",
"\"Mr. Utterson,\" s... |
1,831 | 42_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the night of January 9, Lanyon writes, I received a registered letter. Immediately, I recognized the handwriting of my old school-companion Henry Jekyll on the envelope. This surprised me. Henry and I weren't in the habit of corresponding; after all, we both live in London and I had just seen him the night before at... | [
"DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE",
"ON the ninth of January, now four days ago, I received by the\nevening delivery a registered envelope, addressed in the hand of\nmy colleague and old school-companion, Henry Jekyll. I was a good\ndeal surprised by this; for we were by no means in the habit of\ncorrespondence; I had seen... |
1,832 | 42_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | I was born to a wealthy family and, after a good education, I gained the respect of all who knew me. I seemed to be guaranteed an honorable and distinguished future. If I had any single, serious flaw, it was that I was perhaps inclined to be a bit too spirited. Other people admired my light-hearted good nature, but per... | [
"HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE",
"I WAS born in the year 18--- to a large fortune, endowed besides\nwith excellent parts, inclined by nature to industry, fond of the\nrespect of the wise and good among my fellow-men, and thus, as\nmight have been supposed, with every guarantee of an honourable\nand di... |
1,822 | 42_chapter_1_"story_of_the_door" | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance . . . the last good influence in the lives of down-going men. Mr. Utterson is a wealthy, well-respected London lawyer, a reserved and perhaps even boring man who nevertheless inspires a strange fondness in those who know him. Despite his eminent respectabili-ty... | [
"STORY OF THE DOOR",
"MR. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was\nnever lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in\ndiscourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and\nyet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to\nhis taste, something eminentl... |
1,823 | 42_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "Search for Mr. Hyde" Utterson, prompted by his conversation with Enfield, goes home to study a will that he drew up for his close friend Dr. Jekyll. It states that in the event of the death or disappearance of Jekyll, all of his property should be given over immediately to a Mr. Edward Hyde. This strange will had long... | [
"SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE",
"THAT evening Mr. Utterson came home to his bachelor house in sombre\nspirits and sat down to dinner without relish. It was his custom of\na Sunday, when this meal was over, to sit close by the fire, a\nvolume of some dry divinity on his reading-desk, until the clock of\nthe neighbouring ch... |
1,824 | 42_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "Dr. Jekyll Was Quite at Ease" Two weeks later, Jekyll throws a well-attended dinner party. Utterson stays late so that the two men can speak privately. Utterson mentions the will, and Jekyll begins to make a joke about it, but he turns pale when Utterson tells him that he has been "learning something of young Hyde. Je... | [
"DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE",
"A FORTNIGHT later, by excellent good fortune, the doctor gave one\nof his pleasant dinners to some five or six old cronies, all\nintelligent, reputable men and all judges of good wine; and Mr.\nUtterson so contrived that he remained behind after the others had\ndeparted. This was ... |
1,825 | 42_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "The Carew Murder Case" Approximately one year later, the scene opens on a maid who, sitting at her window in the wee hours of the morning, witnesses a murder take place in the street below. She sees a small, evil-looking man, whom she recognizes as Mr. Hyde, encounter a polite, aged gentleman; when the gentleman offer... | [
"THE CAREW MURDER CASE",
"NEARLY a year later, in the month of October, 18---, London was\nstartled by a crime of singular ferocity and rendered all the more\nnotable by the high position of the victim. The details were few and\nstartling. A maid servant living alone in a house not far from the\nriver, had gone u... |
1,826 | 42_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "Incident of the Letter" Utterson calls on Jekyll, whom he finds in his laboratory looking deathly ill. Jekyll feverishly claims that Hyde has left and that their relationship has ended. He also assures Utterson that the police shall never find the man. Jekyll then shows Utterson a letter and asks him what he should do... | [
"INCIDENT OF THE LETTER",
"IT was late in the afternoon, when Mr. Utterson found his way to\nDr. Jekyll's door, where he was at once admitted by Poole, and\ncarried down by the kitchen offices and across a yard which had\nonce been a garden, to the building which was indifferently known\nas the laboratory or the ... |
1,827 | 42_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "Remarkable Incident of Dr. Lanyon" As time passes, with no sign of Hyde's reappearance, Jekyll becomes healthier-looking and more sociable, devoting himself to charity. To Utterson, it appears that the removal of Hyde's evil influence has had a tremendously positive effect on Jekyll. After two months of this placid li... | [
"REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON",
"TIME ran on; thousands of pounds were offered in reward, for the\ndeath of Sir Danvers was resented as a public injury; but Mr. Hyde\nhad disappeared out of the ken of the police as though he had never\nexisted. Much of his past was unearthed, indeed, and all\ndisreputable: t... |
1,828 | 42_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "Incident at the Window" The following Sunday, Utterson and Enfield are taking their regular stroll. Passing the door where Enfield once saw Hyde enter to retrieve Jekyll's check, Enfield remarks on the murder case. He notes that the story that began with the trampling has reached an end, as London will never again see... | [
"INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW",
"IT chanced on Sunday, when Mr. Utterson was on his usual walk\nwith Mr. Enfield, that their way lay once again through the\nby-street; and that when they came in front of the door, both\nstopped to gaze on it.",
"\"Well,\" said Enfield, \"that story's at an end at least. We shall\nnev... |
1,829 | 42_chapter_8_"the_last_night" | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jekyll's butler Poole visits Utterson one night after dinner. Deeply agitated, he says only that he believes there has been some "foul play" regarding Dr. Jekyll; he quickly brings Utterson to his master's residence. The night is dark and windy, and the streets are deserted, giving Utterson a premonition of disaster. W... | [
"THE LAST NIGHT",
"MR. UTTERSON was sitting by his fireside one evening after\ndinner, when he was surprised to receive a visit from Poole.",
"\"Bless me, Poole, what brings you here?\" he cried; and then\ntaking a second look at him, \"What ails you?\" he added; \"is the\ndoctor ill?\"",
"\"Mr. Utterson,\" s... |
1,831 | 42_chapter_9_"dr._lanyon's_narrative" | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | He put the glass to his lips, and drank at one gulp. . . . there before my eyes . . . there stood Henry Jekyll! This chapter constitutes a word-for-word transcription of the letter Lanyon intends Utterson to open after Lanyon's and Jekyll's deaths. Lanyon writes that after Jekyll's last dinner party, he received a str... | [
"DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE",
"ON the ninth of January, now four days ago, I received by the\nevening delivery a registered envelope, addressed in the hand of\nmy colleague and old school-companion, Henry Jekyll. I was a good\ndeal surprised by this; for we were by no means in the habit of\ncorrespondence; I had seen... |
1,832 | 42_chapter_10_"henry_jekyll's_full_statement_of_the_case" | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man . . . if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both. This chapter offers a transcription of the letter Jekyll leaves for Utterson in the laboratory. Jekyll writes that upon his birth he possessed a large inheritance, a ... | [
"HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE",
"I WAS born in the year 18--- to a large fortune, endowed besides\nwith excellent parts, inclined by nature to industry, fond of the\nrespect of the wise and good among my fellow-men, and thus, as\nmight have been supposed, with every guarantee of an honourable\nand di... |
1,822 | 42_chapter_1:_story_of_the_door | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Utterson, a lawyer, and his cousin, Mr. Richard Enfield, go for a walk as they usually do on Sundays. On a familiar street, they come near an empty building, which has an ugly door with no bell or knocker. Enfield points to the door and says that there is a story attached to it. One "black" winter's night, as he wa... | [
"STORY OF THE DOOR",
"MR. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was\nnever lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in\ndiscourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and\nyet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to\nhis taste, something eminentl... |
1,823 | 42_chapter_2:_search_for_mr._hyde | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That evening, Mr. Utterson returns home in a poor mood. After supper, he takes an envelope containing the will of Dr. Jekyll from his safe and studies it. The will states that upon his death all of Jekyll's possessions should pass to his "friend and benefactor" Mr. Edward Hyde. In addition, should Jekyll unexplainably ... | [
"SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE",
"THAT evening Mr. Utterson came home to his bachelor house in sombre\nspirits and sat down to dinner without relish. It was his custom of\na Sunday, when this meal was over, to sit close by the fire, a\nvolume of some dry divinity on his reading-desk, until the clock of\nthe neighbouring ch... |
1,824 | 42_chapter_3:_dr._jekyll_was_quiet_at_ease | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Two weeks later, Dr. Jekyll has some friends for dinner. After dinner, when the other guests have departed, Utterson remains, as he often done on previous occasions. Jekyll has a warm and sincere regard for his friend. Utterson talks about Dr. Jekyll's will. Though the topic is distasteful to Jekyll, he hides his displ... | [
"DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE",
"A FORTNIGHT later, by excellent good fortune, the doctor gave one\nof his pleasant dinners to some five or six old cronies, all\nintelligent, reputable men and all judges of good wine; and Mr.\nUtterson so contrived that he remained behind after the others had\ndeparted. This was ... |
1,825 | 42_chapter_4:_the_carewmurder_case | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Nearly a year later, a terrible crime occurs in London. A young maidservant who lives alone in her house looks out of her window before going to bed. The night is illuminated by a beautiful full moon and she feels very peaceful. She sees an "aged beautiful gentleman" walking towards a small man. The old man appears inn... | [
"THE CAREW MURDER CASE",
"NEARLY a year later, in the month of October, 18---, London was\nstartled by a crime of singular ferocity and rendered all the more\nnotable by the high position of the victim. The details were few and\nstartling. A maid servant living alone in a house not far from the\nriver, had gone u... |
1,826 | 42_chapter_5:_indicent_of_the_letter | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Late in the afternoon, Mr. Utterson visits Dr. Jekyll. He is admitted by Poole and led to the laboratory, a part of the house he has not seen before. Dr. Jekyll is gloomily sitting there looking very sick. He holds out his cold hands as a gesture of welcome to Utterson. Utterson asks him whether he has heard about the ... | [
"INCIDENT OF THE LETTER",
"IT was late in the afternoon, when Mr. Utterson found his way to\nDr. Jekyll's door, where he was at once admitted by Poole, and\ncarried down by the kitchen offices and across a yard which had\nonce been a garden, to the building which was indifferently known\nas the laboratory or the ... |
1,827 | 42_chapter_6:_remarkable_incident_of_dr._lanyon | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The search for Hyde goes on. Thousands of pounds are offered in reward to anyone who has information on the whereabouts of Hyde. Strange tales start to emerge about his past misdeeds, but nobody knows where he presently is. Mr. Utterson gradually recovers from the shock and sorrow of Sir Danvers' murder. With Hyde gone... | [
"REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON",
"TIME ran on; thousands of pounds were offered in reward, for the\ndeath of Sir Danvers was resented as a public injury; but Mr. Hyde\nhad disappeared out of the ken of the police as though he had never\nexisted. Much of his past was unearthed, indeed, and all\ndisreputable: t... |
1,828 | 42_chapter_7:_incident_at_the_window | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One Sunday, Enfield and Utterson are walking again when they come to the strange door at which the story began. Enfield, who has by now, of course, like the rest of London, heard all about Mr. Hyde, says that the story is at least at and end, and Utterson expresses the hope that it is. He tells him that he once saw Mr.... | [
"INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW",
"IT chanced on Sunday, when Mr. Utterson was on his usual walk\nwith Mr. Enfield, that their way lay once again through the\nby-street; and that when they came in front of the door, both\nstopped to gaze on it.",
"\"Well,\" said Enfield, \"that story's at an end at least. We shall\nnev... |
1,829 | 42_chapter_8:_the_last_night | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Utterson is sitting by the fireside one evening when Poole visits him. Utterson offers him a glass of wine and tries to engage him calmly, but he is very frightened and agitated and asks Utterson to go with him to the house. When they arrive, Utterson is surprised to see Jekyll's servants gathered together in frigh... | [
"THE LAST NIGHT",
"MR. UTTERSON was sitting by his fireside one evening after\ndinner, when he was surprised to receive a visit from Poole.",
"\"Bless me, Poole, what brings you here?\" he cried; and then\ntaking a second look at him, \"What ails you?\" he added; \"is the\ndoctor ill?\"",
"\"Mr. Utterson,\" s... |
1,831 | 42_chapter_9:_dr._lanyon's_narrative | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On January 9, the day after Jekyll's final dinner party, Dr. Lanyon receives a letter from Dr. Jekyll requesting him to go to his laboratory and take a drawer, which contains some drugs, from his cabinet. At midnight, a man will arrive and asks for the contents. If he wants an explanation, he shall then receive one, bu... | [
"DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE",
"ON the ninth of January, now four days ago, I received by the\nevening delivery a registered envelope, addressed in the hand of\nmy colleague and old school-companion, Henry Jekyll. I was a good\ndeal surprised by this; for we were by no means in the habit of\ncorrespondence; I had seen... |
1,832 | 42_chapter_10:_henry_jekyll's_full_statement_of_the_case | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In this chapter, Henry Jekyll tells the reader his life's story. He was born to a large fortune. He was intelligent and industrious, but also had a certain "impatient gaiety of disposition. " This might not have bothered other men, but it clashed with his desire to be serious and respectable. By the time he was an adul... | [
"HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE",
"I WAS born in the year 18--- to a large fortune, endowed besides\nwith excellent parts, inclined by nature to industry, fond of the\nrespect of the wise and good among my fellow-men, and thus, as\nmight have been supposed, with every guarantee of an honourable\nand di... |
1,822 | 42_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Stevenson's first chapter is a combination of three character profiles added to a brief account of a horrible atrocity. The first description is of Mr. Utterson, the main character and protagonist for much of the story. He is said to possess a "rugged countenance," yet somehow he is "loveable" and well received by all ... | [
"STORY OF THE DOOR",
"MR. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was\nnever lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in\ndiscourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and\nyet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to\nhis taste, something eminentl... |
1,823 | 42_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter two begins with Mr. Utterson returning to his home and soon going into his study where he pulls out the will of Dr. Jekyll, for whom he is the lawyer. The will states that after the death or prolonged absence of the doctor, all his assets will be given to Mr. Hyde. Now that Utterson knows that Hyde is the child... | [
"SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE",
"THAT evening Mr. Utterson came home to his bachelor house in sombre\nspirits and sat down to dinner without relish. It was his custom of\na Sunday, when this meal was over, to sit close by the fire, a\nvolume of some dry divinity on his reading-desk, until the clock of\nthe neighbouring ch... |
1,824 | 42_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In chapter three, Mr. Utterson visits the home of Dr. Jekyll after being invited for a dinner party with several other distinguished guests. After all the other guests have left, Utterson remains to ask Dr. Jekyll about his will. Jekyll is very hesitant to speak about the specifics of his will, and asks Utterson to let... | [
"DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE",
"A FORTNIGHT later, by excellent good fortune, the doctor gave one\nof his pleasant dinners to some five or six old cronies, all\nintelligent, reputable men and all judges of good wine; and Mr.\nUtterson so contrived that he remained behind after the others had\ndeparted. This was ... |
1,825 | 42_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Stevenson's fourth chapter details the murder of Sir Danvers Carew, a distinguished noble and member of Parliament. The murder takes place about a year after the time setting of the previous chapters. It seems a housemaid is preparing for bed in her second-story room when she looks outside the window and sees Carew, wh... | [
"THE CAREW MURDER CASE",
"NEARLY a year later, in the month of October, 18---, London was\nstartled by a crime of singular ferocity and rendered all the more\nnotable by the high position of the victim. The details were few and\nstartling. A maid servant living alone in a house not far from the\nriver, had gone u... |
1,826 | 42_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In this chapter, Utterson goes to the door of Jekyll, is admitted by Poole, the butler, and quickly confronts Jekyll with the news of Carew's murder. Dr. Jekyll's response is quite unusual. Instead of saying that he will do his best to find Hyde, the doctor tries to dismiss the whole situation, saying, "he is safe, he ... | [
"INCIDENT OF THE LETTER",
"IT was late in the afternoon, when Mr. Utterson found his way to\nDr. Jekyll's door, where he was at once admitted by Poole, and\ncarried down by the kitchen offices and across a yard which had\nonce been a garden, to the building which was indifferently known\nas the laboratory or the ... |
1,827 | 42_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Stevenson's sixth chapter continues with a little narrative about the murder of Sir Danvers and the disappearance of Mr. Hyde. Apparently Mr. Hyde was spoken about in the press, which uncovered much of his "disreputable" past. At the same time, "a new life began for Dr. Jekyll." The doctor returned to his normal public... | [
"REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON",
"TIME ran on; thousands of pounds were offered in reward, for the\ndeath of Sir Danvers was resented as a public injury; but Mr. Hyde\nhad disappeared out of the ken of the police as though he had never\nexisted. Much of his past was unearthed, indeed, and all\ndisreputable: t... |
1,828 | 42_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | of it will also be quite short. Utterson and Enfield are walking as usual when they come before Mr. Hyde's door again. Both men muse that most likely they will never see Hyde again. Enfield also reveals that Mr. Hyde's house has a back exit which leads right into Dr. Jekyll's estate. Soon the two men venture into the h... | [
"INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW",
"IT chanced on Sunday, when Mr. Utterson was on his usual walk\nwith Mr. Enfield, that their way lay once again through the\nby-street; and that when they came in front of the door, both\nstopped to gaze on it.",
"\"Well,\" said Enfield, \"that story's at an end at least. We shall\nnev... |
1,829 | 42_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The eighth chapter is by far the most dramatic of Stevenson's ten chapters. The scene begins with Poole, Jekyll's butler, making a surprise visit to the home of Mr. Utterson. Poole proceeds to explain that he thinks "foul play" has occurred in the laboratory of Dr. Jekyll, in which he has kept himself isolated for the ... | [
"THE LAST NIGHT",
"MR. UTTERSON was sitting by his fireside one evening after\ndinner, when he was surprised to receive a visit from Poole.",
"\"Bless me, Poole, what brings you here?\" he cried; and then\ntaking a second look at him, \"What ails you?\" he added; \"is the\ndoctor ill?\"",
"\"Mr. Utterson,\" s... |
1,831 | 42_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The last two chapters differ from the previous eight in that they are a series of letters explaining the previous bizarre events. The first is a letter in a letter. In Lanyon's narrative, he encloses a copy of the letter written him by Jekyll, giving him a series of strange instructions. Dr. Jekyll's desperate message ... | [
"DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE",
"ON the ninth of January, now four days ago, I received by the\nevening delivery a registered envelope, addressed in the hand of\nmy colleague and old school-companion, Henry Jekyll. I was a good\ndeal surprised by this; for we were by no means in the habit of\ncorrespondence; I had seen... |
1,832 | 42_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This last chapter reveals all the previous mysteries and underscores the theme of the whole story, which can be further examined in the Theme Review section. Jekyll begins his auto-biography style narrative explaining that he has found in himself "a profound duplicity of life." Although suppressing it in his early year... | [
"HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE",
"I WAS born in the year 18--- to a large fortune, endowed besides\nwith excellent parts, inclined by nature to industry, fond of the\nrespect of the wise and good among my fellow-men, and thus, as\nmight have been supposed, with every guarantee of an honourable\nand di... |
1,833 | 209_prologue_and_chapters_1-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Friends gathered around a fire in a country house outside London on Christmas Eve entertain themselves by telling ghost stories. When a man named Griffin tells of a little boy who experiences a ghostly visitation, his friend Douglas notes, a few nights later, that the age of the child "gives the effect another turn of ... | [
"I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a\nlittle seesaw of the right throbs and the wrong. After rising, in town,\nto meet his appeal, I had at all events a couple of very bad days--found\nmyself doubtful again, felt indeed sure I had made a mistake. In this\nstate of mind I spent the... |
1,834 | 209_chapter_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Grose rushes outside the house, where she meets the governess, who is now pale with shock, and demands to know what is wrong with her. No longer desiring to protect Mrs. Grose from her knowledge, the governess tells her that through that same window, she saw something much worse and more frightening - a man lookin... | [
"Oh, she let me know as soon as, round the corner of the house, she\nloomed again into view. \"What in the name of goodness is the matter--?\"\nShe was now flushed and out of breath.",
"I said nothing till she came quite near. \"With me?\" I must have made a\nwonderful face. \"Do I show it?\"",
"\"You're as whi... |
1,835 | 209_chapter_vi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The governess is so shocked that she must lie down for an hour. After that, she and Mrs. Grose don't go to church but rather have their own "service" of tears, prayers and promises to each other in the schoolroom. Though Mrs. Grose has not seen anything, she does not question the governess's sanity but defers to her ju... | [
"It took of course more than that particular passage to place us together\nin presence of what we had now to live with as we could--my dreadful\nliability to impressions of the order so vividly exemplified, and my\ncompanion's knowledge, henceforth--a knowledge half consternation and\nhalf compassion--of that liabi... |
1,836 | 209_chapter_vii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The incident over, the governess rushes to find Mrs. Grose, telling her that the children "know. She says that Flora saw the specter at the lake and said nothing. Across the lake, a woman appeared and simply stood there. She was no one the governess has ever seen, but she says, someone Flora and Mrs. Grose have seen - ... | [
"I got hold of Mrs. Grose as soon after this as I could; and I can give\nno intelligible account of how I fought out the interval. Yet I still\nhear myself cry as I fairly threw myself into her arms: \"They KNOW--it's\ntoo monstrous: they know, they know!\"",
"\"And what on earth--?\" I felt her incredulity as sh... |
1,837 | 209_chapter_viii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Determined to remain rational about her suspicions, the governess talks with Mrs. Grose in her room late at night. She wonders how, if she made it up, she could have given such detailed descriptions of the two ghosts such that Mrs. Grose was able to identify them. Though Mrs. Grose wants to forget the subject entirely,... | [
"What I had said to Mrs. Grose was true enough: there were in the matter\nI had put before her depths and possibilities that I lacked resolution\nto sound; so that when we met once more in the wonder of it we were of a\ncommon mind about the duty of resistance to extravagant fancies. We were\nto keep our heads if w... |
1,838 | 209_chapter_ix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The governess resigns herself to wait as the days pass, keeping her fears from her pupils. She worries that they will notice the extra attention she shows them and wonders if perhaps their increased affection for her covers deeper secrets, just as hers for them does. They are very fond of her and dedicated to their les... | [
"I waited and waited, and the days, as they elapsed, took something from\nmy consternation. A very few of them, in fact, passing, in constant\nsight of my pupils, without a fresh incident, sufficed to give to\ngrievous fancies and even to odious memories a kind of brush of the\nsponge. I have spoken of the surrende... |
1,839 | 209_chapter_x | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The governess returns to her room and sees that though its curtains are closed, Flora's bed is empty. She gives into her terror and tears at the bed sheets. Finally, she sees movement behind the curtain covering the window, and Flora emerges from behind it. Before the governess can confront the child, Flora calls her n... | [
"I remained awhile at the top of the stair, but with the effect presently\nof understanding that when my visitor had gone, he had gone: then I\nreturned to my room. The foremost thing I saw there by the light of the\ncandle I had left burning was that Flora's little bed was empty; and on\nthis I caught my breath wi... |
1,840 | 209_chapter_xi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, the governess talks to Mrs. Grose. She is comforted by the housekeeper's calm attitude but believes that it is a result of a lack of imagination. Only if the children were physically injured would Mrs. Grose worry. The two women stand watching the children - whom the governess has decided to always keep i... | [
"It was not till late next day that I spoke to Mrs. Grose; the rigor with\nwhich I kept my pupils in sight making it often difficult to meet\nher privately, and the more as we each felt the importance of not\nprovoking--on the part of the servants quite as much as on that of the\nchildren--any suspicion of a secret... |
1,841 | 209_chapter_xii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back on the lawn, the governess and Mrs. Grose continue their conversation. The governess emphasizes the last comment Miles made to her before she left his room: "Think, you know, what I might do. Rather than take that as proof of his goodness, the governess believes he is referring to the far worse things he did at sc... | [
"The particular impression I had received proved in the morning light,\nI repeat, not quite successfully presentable to Mrs. Grose, though I\nreinforced it with the mention of still another remark that he had made\nbefore we separated. \"It all lies in half a dozen words,\" I said to her,\n\"words that really settl... |
1,842 | 209_chapter_xiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | For a month, the governess lives in the awkward state of suspecting her pupils and saying nothing. In all this, the governess's perceptions are sharper than ever. She is sure that it is not her imagination but that Flora and Miles are aware of her knowledge. Conversations take sharp turns whenever they approach the sub... | [
"It was all very well to join them, but speaking to them proved quite as\nmuch as ever an effort beyond my strength--offered, in close quarters,\ndifficulties as insurmountable as before. This situation continued a\nmonth, and with new aggravations and particular notes, the note above\nall, sharper and sharper, of ... |
1,843 | 209_chapter_xiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the way to church one Sunday morning, the governess walks with Miles while Flora walks with Mrs. Grose. The governess wonders why the children are so obedient when she keeps them with her at all times - especially Miles, who dressed up like a little gentleman, seems independent and is just about to begin what the go... | [
"Walking to church a certain Sunday morning, I had little Miles at my\nside and his sister, in advance of us and at Mrs. Grose's, well in\nsight. It was a crisp, clear day, the first of its order for some time;\nthe night had brought a touch of frost, and the autumn air, bright\nand sharp, made the church bells alm... |
1,844 | 209_chapter_xv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The governess does not follow Miles into the church but instead sits on a gravestone outside, considering the meaning of his words. By the time she has thought it out, it is too late to go into church without everyone noticing. She realizes that Miles has sensed that she is very afraid of something and believes that he... | [
"The business was practically settled from the moment I never followed\nhim. It was a pitiful surrender to agitation, but my being aware of this\nhad somehow no power to restore me. I only sat there on my tomb and read\ninto what my little friend had said to me the fullness of its meaning;\nby the time I had graspe... |
1,845 | 209_chapter_xvi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Mrs. Grose and the children return from church, none of them mention the governess's absence, and immediately, the governess suspects the children of "bribing" Mrs. Grose into doing so. Before tea, she visits Mrs. Grose's room, where the housekeeper tells her that the children asked her not to ask why she had left... | [
"I had so perfectly expected that the return of my pupils would be marked\nby a demonstration that I was freshly upset at having to take into\naccount that they were dumb about my absence. Instead of gaily\ndenouncing and caressing me, they made no allusion to my having failed\nthem, and I was left, for the time, o... |
1,846 | 209_chapter_xvii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sitting in her room as a storm rages outside that night, the governess sits in her room trying to a begin a letter to employer. With nothing yet written, she goes and listens outside Miles's door to see if he is awake. He calls for her to come in, saying he could hear her out in the hallway. Inside the room, Miles tell... | [
"I went so far, in the evening, as to make a beginning. The weather had\nchanged back, a great wind was abroad, and beneath the lamp, in my room,\nwith Flora at peace beside me, I sat for a long time before a blank\nsheet of paper and listened to the lash of the rain and the batter of\nthe gusts. Finally I went out... |
1,847 | 209_chapter_xviii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, the governess tells Mrs. Grose that she has written, even though she has not yet actually mailed the letter. She has spent the morning teaching the children, who performed brilliantly at their lessons. She finds Miles to be extraordinary, and she wishes for proof of his wrongdoing at school. After the noo... | [
"The next day, after lessons, Mrs. Grose found a moment to say to me\nquietly: \"Have you written, miss?\"",
"\"Yes--I've written.\" But I didn't add--for the hour--that my letter,\nsealed and directed, was still in my pocket. There would be time enough\nto send it before the messenger should go to the village. M... |
1,848 | 209_chapter_xix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The governess and housekeeper go straight to the lake, and the governess tells Mrs. Grose that she believes the child is in the place where she pretended not to see Miss Jessel. She believes that the children talk of the ghosts when they are alone and say terrible things. When they reach the lake, Flora is nowhere to b... | [
"We went straight to the lake, as it was called at Bly, and I daresay rightly called, though I reflect that it may in fact have been a sheet of water less remarkable than it appeared to my untraveled eyes. My acquaintance with sheets of water was small, and the pool of Bly, at all events on the few occasions of my ... |
1,849 | 209_chapter_xx | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Flora looks shocked at the governess's words. Mrs. Grose suddenly gives a cry, and the governess turns to see Miss Jessel standing on the opposite bank of the lake. She feels a thrill to know that she finally has proof. She points across the lake, and Mrs. Grose looks there, but Flora's eyes remain fixed on the governe... | [
"Just as in the churchyard with Miles, the whole thing was upon us. Much\nas I had made of the fact that this name had never once, between us,\nbeen sounded, the quick, smitten glare with which the child's face now\nreceived it fairly likened my breach of the silence to the smash of a\npane of glass. It added to th... |
1,850 | 209_chapter_xxi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Grose comes to the governess's room while she is still in bed the next morning and tells her that Flora is feverish and ill and has been frightened all night of seeing the governess. The governess wants to know if she still denies seeing Miss Jessel, and Mrs. Grose says she can't push her on it. She agrees with th... | [
"Before a new day, in my room, had fully broken, my eyes opened to Mrs.\nGrose, who had come to my bedside with worse news. Flora was so markedly\nfeverish that an illness was perhaps at hand; she had passed a night of\nextreme unrest, a night agitated above all by fears that had for their\nsubject not in the least... |
1,851 | 209_chapter_xxii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Once Mrs. Grose leaves, the governess realizes how alone she is. She is very worried and nervous. The servants, because of Mrs. Grose and Flora's quick departure, know that something is wrong, and the governess must act very "grand," overseeing the estate, to keep from breaking down in front of the servants. She realiz... | [
"Yet it was when she had got off--and I missed her on the spot--that the\ngreat pinch really came. If I had counted on what it would give me to\nfind myself alone with Miles, I speedily perceived, at least, that it\nwould give me a measure. No hour of my stay in fact was so assailed\nwith apprehensions as that of m... |
1,852 | 209_chapter_xxiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The governess and Miles speak awkwardly about the servants. The governess says they are not quite alone, and Miles wonders how much the servants count, concluding that everything depends. He stands near the window, facing outside, as the governess takes a seat on the couch readying herself for some terror. Gradually, s... | [
"\"Oh, more or less.\" I fancy my smile was pale. \"Not absolutely. We\nshouldn't like that!\" I went on.",
"\"No--I suppose we shouldn't. Of course we have the others.\"",
"\"We have the others--we have indeed the others,\" I concurred.",
"\"Yet even though we have them,\" he returned, still with his hands i... |
1,853 | 209_chapter_xxiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The governess suddenly notices Peter Quint standing outside the window. She grasps Miles and holds him with his back to the window. Immediately, the governess decides she can and will fight with Quint for Miles's soul and looks at the boy who now has sweat on his forehead. Miles says that he took the letter, and the go... | [
"My sense of how he received this suffered for a minute from something\nthat I can describe only as a fierce split of my attention--a stroke\nthat at first, as I sprang straight up, reduced me to the mere blind\nmovement of getting hold of him, drawing him close, and, while I just\nfell for support against the near... |
1,854 | 209_prologue | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Griffin finishes a very satisfactory ghost story, concerning a child who sees some terrifying apparition. The Narrator notices that Douglas has something to say. Two days later, Douglas brings up Griffin's story again; he wonders aloud if the terror of the story would be increased if it involved two children instead of... | [
"The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but\nexcept the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve\nin an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no\ncomment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case\nhe had met in which such a visita... |
1,855 | 209_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | From here on out, the Governess is our narrator. She tells us about her pleasant journey to her employer's country home, where she is met by Mrs. Grose and Flora. She's quite impressed with the house, and its pleasant appearance makes her admire her employer even more. Apparently, Flora is just the most adorable creatu... | [
"I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a\nlittle seesaw of the right throbs and the wrong. After rising, in town,\nto meet his appeal, I had at all events a couple of very bad days--found\nmyself doubtful again, felt indeed sure I had made a mistake. In this\nstate of mind I spent the... |
1,856 | 209_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This rather surreal sense of command hits home two days later, as the Governess, with Flora in tow, goes to pick up Miles. She is unsettled by a letter she received from the children's uncle , with an enclosed letter from Miles's school. The letter basically says that Miles can't ever return to school, for reasons undi... | [
"This came home to me when, two days later, I drove over with Flora to\nmeet, as Mrs. Grose said, the little gentleman; and all the more for\nan incident that, presenting itself the second evening, had deeply\ndisconcerted me. The first day had been, on the whole, as I have\nexpressed, reassuring; but I was to see ... |
1,857 | 209_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This awkward conversation doesn't stop Mrs. Grose and the Governess from growing closer. Their friendship is cemented by Miles's arrival; it turns out that Mrs. Grose was right; once the Governess lays eyes on the boy, all her fears about him dissipate. Miles is just as adorably adorable as his sister, and he inspires ... | [
"Her thus turning her back on me was fortunately not, for my just\npreoccupations, a snub that could check the growth of our mutual esteem. We met, after I had brought home little Miles, more intimately than ever\non the ground of my stupefaction, my general emotion: so monstrous was I\nthen ready to pronounce it t... |
1,858 | 209_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Governess's run-in from afar with the creepy stranger understandably unsettles her. She wonders if Bly might be housing some terrible secret, like an insane relative in the attic, a la Jane Eyre. She spends the rest of the evening pacing around, wondering what to do. When the Governess returns to the house and runs... | [
"It was not that I didn't wait, on this occasion, for more, for I was\nrooted as deeply as I was shaken. Was there a \"secret\" at Bly--a mystery\nof Udolpho or an insane, an unmentionable relative kept in unsuspected\nconfinement? I can't say how long I turned it over, or how long, in\na confusion of curiosity and... |
1,834 | 209_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Grose dashes outside to see what's wrong with the Governess - apparently, she looks just terrible. The Governess spills the beans about the strange man; she tells the housekeeper about both encounters with him. Mrs. Grose questions the Governess about this man. They establish that he is certainly not a gentleman; ... | [
"Oh, she let me know as soon as, round the corner of the house, she\nloomed again into view. \"What in the name of goodness is the matter--?\"\nShe was now flushed and out of breath.",
"I said nothing till she came quite near. \"With me?\" I must have made a\nwonderful face. \"Do I show it?\"",
"\"You're as whi... |
1,835 | 209_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Grose, bless her heart, immediately sides with the Governess, and doesn't question what she saw. They decide that they will do their best to shelter the children. It becomes clear to the Governess that Quint was there looking for Miles . The two women wonder what would happen if the ghost appeared to the children,... | [
"It took of course more than that particular passage to place us together\nin presence of what we had now to live with as we could--my dreadful\nliability to impressions of the order so vividly exemplified, and my\ncompanion's knowledge, henceforth--a knowledge half consternation and\nhalf compassion--of that liabi... |
1,836 | 209_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After this eerie scene plays out, the Governess rushes to see Mrs. Grose. She's certain that the children know about the ghostly visitors. The Governess is convinced that Flora saw the strange figure by the pond and - horror of horrors - didn't say anything about it. Finally, we get a description of the figure by the w... | [
"I got hold of Mrs. Grose as soon after this as I could; and I can give\nno intelligible account of how I fought out the interval. Yet I still\nhear myself cry as I fairly threw myself into her arms: \"They KNOW--it's\ntoo monstrous: they know, they know!\"",
"\"And what on earth--?\" I felt her incredulity as sh... |
1,837 | 209_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Governess and Mrs. Grose attempt to keep their heads on straight and not get carried away with extravagant ideas - but it's tough to stay calm when you're dealing with evil spirits. The two women meet that evening after everyone's asleep to rehash the mysterious sightings, and they confirm that indeed it was Quint ... | [
"What I had said to Mrs. Grose was true enough: there were in the matter\nI had put before her depths and possibilities that I lacked resolution\nto sound; so that when we met once more in the wonder of it we were of a\ncommon mind about the duty of resistance to extravagant fancies. We were\nto keep our heads if w... |
1,838 | 209_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Governess waits it out for a few days, watching the children closely for signs of...well, of anything. Nothing particularly enlightening happens, but she's afraid that they might notice her unusually affectionate behavior. The children themselves are also unusually affectionate during this time, and the Governess i... | [
"I waited and waited, and the days, as they elapsed, took something from\nmy consternation. A very few of them, in fact, passing, in constant\nsight of my pupils, without a fresh incident, sufficed to give to\ngrievous fancies and even to odious memories a kind of brush of the\nsponge. I have spoken of the surrende... |
1,839 | 209_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Shaken, the Governess returns to the room she shares with Flora. There, she finds something that does fill her with terror - the girl is missing. This mystery is quickly resolved, however; Flora emerges from behind the curtains and immediately demands to know where the Governess has been. Taken aback, the Governess str... | [
"I remained awhile at the top of the stair, but with the effect presently\nof understanding that when my visitor had gone, he had gone: then I\nreturned to my room. The foremost thing I saw there by the light of the\ncandle I had left burning was that Flora's little bed was empty; and on\nthis I caught my breath wi... |
1,840 | 209_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Late the next day, the Governess meets up with Mrs. Grose to reveal what she saw the previous night. Their meetings have been made more difficult by the Governess's constant watch over the children, but the younger woman still draws comfort from them. She speaks rather condescendingly of Mrs. Grose's complete lack of i... | [
"It was not till late next day that I spoke to Mrs. Grose; the rigor with\nwhich I kept my pupils in sight making it often difficult to meet\nher privately, and the more as we each felt the importance of not\nprovoking--on the part of the servants quite as much as on that of the\nchildren--any suspicion of a secret... |
1,841 | 209_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We may not be so sure what to think about the children and their mysterious nighttime escapades, but the Governess certainly knows what she thinks of all of it - she's even more convinced that the children are meeting up nightly with Quint and Jessel and that, when the children are alone together, they're talking about... | [
"The particular impression I had received proved in the morning light,\nI repeat, not quite successfully presentable to Mrs. Grose, though I\nreinforced it with the mention of still another remark that he had made\nbefore we separated. \"It all lies in half a dozen words,\" I said to her,\n\"words that really settl... |
1,842 | 209_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Another tense month passes, and the Governess continues to keep a watchful eye on the two children. She has the odd feeling that the little group is constantly avoiding topics that hit a little too close to home. The Governess is getting a little paranoid - she's certain the children secretly wonder if and when she'll ... | [
"It was all very well to join them, but speaking to them proved quite as\nmuch as ever an effort beyond my strength--offered, in close quarters,\ndifficulties as insurmountable as before. This situation continued a\nmonth, and with new aggravations and particular notes, the note above\nall, sharper and sharper, of ... |
1,843 | 209_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Walking to church one Sunday, the Governess is struck by the idea that her command of the little family unit is like a jailer watching over prisoners, keeping an eye out for any attempt to escape. She recognizes, however, that, if Miles were to try and escape from her, she would have no way of stopping him - though he'... | [
"Walking to church a certain Sunday morning, I had little Miles at my\nside and his sister, in advance of us and at Mrs. Grose's, well in\nsight. It was a crisp, clear day, the first of its order for some time;\nthe night had brought a touch of frost, and the autumn air, bright\nand sharp, made the church bells alm... |
1,844 | 209_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Governess, disturbed by this run-in with Miles, doesn't follow her party into church. Instead, she paces round outside, pondering what the boy just presented her with. In her eyes, Miles has figured out that she's afraid to deal with the problem of his dismissal from school, and is using her fear against her. For t... | [
"The business was practically settled from the moment I never followed\nhim. It was a pitiful surrender to agitation, but my being aware of this\nhad somehow no power to restore me. I only sat there on my tomb and read\ninto what my little friend had said to me the fullness of its meaning;\nby the time I had graspe... |
1,845 | 209_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The children and Mrs. Grose return from church, and the Governess is rather confused by the easy acceptance of her disappearance. The Governess tells Mrs. Grose that everything is out in the open between her and Miles. She goes on to say that she had a conversation with Miss Jessel in which the dead woman told her of t... | [
"I had so perfectly expected that the return of my pupils would be marked\nby a demonstration that I was freshly upset at having to take into\naccount that they were dumb about my absence. Instead of gaily\ndenouncing and caressing me, they made no allusion to my having failed\nthem, and I was left, for the time, o... |
1,846 | 209_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That evening, after Flora falls asleep, the Governess sits up listening to the rain and trying to write something. She can't concentrate, and goes across to listen at Miles's door. Being the intensely aware child that he is, Miles can tell that someone's at the door. He calls out for that someone to come in; the Govern... | [
"I went so far, in the evening, as to make a beginning. The weather had\nchanged back, a great wind was abroad, and beneath the lamp, in my room,\nwith Flora at peace beside me, I sat for a long time before a blank\nsheet of paper and listened to the lash of the rain and the batter of\nthe gusts. Finally I went out... |
1,847 | 209_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, Mrs. Grose wants to confirm that the Governess has indeed written to their employer. The Governess says that she has, but neglects to mention that she hasn't sent it yet. The children were in particularly good form that morning in their lessons; Miles in particular seems determined to forget the events of... | [
"The next day, after lessons, Mrs. Grose found a moment to say to me\nquietly: \"Have you written, miss?\"",
"\"Yes--I've written.\" But I didn't add--for the hour--that my letter,\nsealed and directed, was still in my pocket. There would be time enough\nto send it before the messenger should go to the village. M... |
1,848 | 209_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Governess and Mrs. Grose rush to the lake, fearing what Flora might be doing there. She's even more sure than ever before that, when the children are alone, they speak of their ghostly visitors, and that they've planned this set of distractions. The two women find that Flora has taken the little boat that's moored ... | [
"We went straight to the lake, as it was called at Bly, and I daresay rightly called, though I reflect that it may in fact have been a sheet of water less remarkable than it appeared to my untraveled eyes. My acquaintance with sheets of water was small, and the pool of Bly, at all events on the few occasions of my ... |
1,849 | 209_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As soon as this fatal name is uttered, Flora is shocked. Mrs. Grose is also taken aback by this direct confrontation and shrieks. To top it all off, the Governess sees Miss Jessel herself standing across the pond. At this moment of terror and confusion, the Governess feels a certain triumph - now she has proof that she... | [
"Just as in the churchyard with Miles, the whole thing was upon us. Much\nas I had made of the fact that this name had never once, between us,\nbeen sounded, the quick, smitten glare with which the child's face now\nreceived it fairly likened my breach of the silence to the smash of a\npane of glass. It added to th... |
1,850 | 209_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Early the next morning, Mrs. Grose comes to tell the Governess that Flora has fallen ill with a fever - she was kept up the night before with fears about her governess . The Governess is still certain that Flora's lying, and is certain that the girl will try and convince her uncle that the Governess is no good. The Gov... | [
"Before a new day, in my room, had fully broken, my eyes opened to Mrs.\nGrose, who had come to my bedside with worse news. Flora was so markedly\nfeverish that an illness was perhaps at hand; she had passed a night of\nextreme unrest, a night agitated above all by fears that had for their\nsubject not in the least... |
1,851 | 209_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As soon as the Governess is left alone with Miles, she misses her friend, Mrs. Grose. However, left in charge, she does her best to make everything run smoothly. The Governess doesn't see Miles until dinner; after the departure of his sister and Mrs. Grose, he spent the day on his own. The Governess struggles to act na... | [
"Yet it was when she had got off--and I missed her on the spot--that the\ngreat pinch really came. If I had counted on what it would give me to\nfind myself alone with Miles, I speedily perceived, at least, that it\nwould give me a measure. No hour of my stay in fact was so assailed\nwith apprehensions as that of m... |
1,852 | 209_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Governess and Miles, alone at last, speak cagily about Miles's explorations of the grounds over the past day or so, when he's been left to his own devices. Finally, it's time to get everything out in the open. The Governess insists that she's only there to help Miles and to be with him - and he sees that she wants ... | [
"\"Oh, more or less.\" I fancy my smile was pale. \"Not absolutely. We\nshouldn't like that!\" I went on.",
"\"No--I suppose we shouldn't. Of course we have the others.\"",
"\"We have the others--we have indeed the others,\" I concurred.",
"\"Yet even though we have them,\" he returned, still with his hands i... |
1,853 | 209_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Governess is distracted from Miles by a horrid development - she grabs the boy and holds him so that he can't see the window, for, outside, Peter Quint appears, glaring in through the windowpane. Miles, unaware of what's going on behind and around him, admits that he took the letter. The Governess is heartened by t... | [
"My sense of how he received this suffered for a minute from something\nthat I can describe only as a fierce split of my attention--a stroke\nthat at first, as I sprang straight up, reduced me to the mere blind\nmovement of getting hold of him, drawing him close, and, while I just\nfell for support against the near... |
1,854 | 209_prologue"" | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A group of visitors are gathered around a fireplace discussing the possible horror of a ghost appearing to a young, innocent child. A man named Douglas wonders if one child "gives the effect another turn of the screw," what would a story involving a ghostly visitation to two children do? Everyone wants to hear his stor... | [
"The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but\nexcept the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve\nin an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no\ncomment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case\nhe had met in which such a visita... |
1,859 | 209_sections_4-5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After seeing the person , the governess wonders if there was a "secret at Bly". She spends a good portion of the succeeding days thinking about this encounter. The shock has "sharpened all" her senses, and she fears that she might become too nervous to keep her wits about her. The children occupy most of her day, and s... | [
"It was not that I didn't wait, on this occasion, for more, for I was\nrooted as deeply as I was shaken. Was there a \"secret\" at Bly--a mystery\nof Udolpho or an insane, an unmentionable relative kept in unsuspected\nconfinement? I can't say how long I turned it over, or how long, in\na confusion of curiosity and... |
1,860 | 209_sections_6-7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Grose accepted what the governess had to say about the appearance of the stranger without questioning anything. The governess knows what she herself is capable of to shelter her pupils, and she tells the housekeeper that the apparition was looking for little Miles. She cannot explain how she knows this, but she is... | [
"It took of course more than that particular passage to place us together\nin presence of what we had now to live with as we could--my dreadful\nliability to impressions of the order so vividly exemplified, and my\ncompanion's knowledge, henceforth--a knowledge half consternation and\nhalf compassion--of that liabi... |
1,861 | 209_sections_8-10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At a later time, the governess has a talk with the housekeeper, when they agree that the governess couldn't make up the story because she had given such a perfect description, even to the last detail, of the two characters. In the meantime, the governess has devoted herself to her pupils, who have been more than charmi... | [
"What I had said to Mrs. Grose was true enough: there were in the matter\nI had put before her depths and possibilities that I lacked resolution\nto sound; so that when we met once more in the wonder of it we were of a\ncommon mind about the duty of resistance to extravagant fancies. We were\nto keep our heads if w... |
1,862 | 209_sections_11-12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After the recent incidents, the governess keeps close watch on her charges. She feels as though she could not withstand the pressure of these days if it were not for the comfort of Mrs. Grose, who apparently believes the governess' story without reservation. Even though Mrs. Grose is a good woman, she is lacking in ima... | [
"It was not till late next day that I spoke to Mrs. Grose; the rigor with\nwhich I kept my pupils in sight making it often difficult to meet\nher privately, and the more as we each felt the importance of not\nprovoking--on the part of the servants quite as much as on that of the\nchildren--any suspicion of a secret... |
1,863 | 209_sections_13-15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the ensuing days, the governess often thinks that her pupils are conspiring against her, and she wonders when they would openly admit that they know about Miss Jessel and Peter Quint. Sometimes she wants to cry out: "They're here, they're here, you little wretches . . . and you can't deny it now." But her charges do... | [
"It was all very well to join them, but speaking to them proved quite as\nmuch as ever an effort beyond my strength--offered, in close quarters,\ndifficulties as insurmountable as before. This situation continued a\nmonth, and with new aggravations and particular notes, the note above\nall, sharper and sharper, of ... |
1,864 | 209_sections_16-17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When the others return from church, they make no mention of the governess' absence. At teatime, the governess questions Mrs. Grose and discovers it was little Miles' idea that nothing be said. The governess tells how she returned to meet "a friend" and to talk with her. She informs Mrs. Grose that Miss Jessel "suffers ... | [
"I had so perfectly expected that the return of my pupils would be marked\nby a demonstration that I was freshly upset at having to take into\naccount that they were dumb about my absence. Instead of gaily\ndenouncing and caressing me, they made no allusion to my having failed\nthem, and I was left, for the time, o... |
1,865 | 209_sections_18-20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, the governess tells Mrs. Grose that the letter to the master is written, but she fails to mention that she has not yet mailed it. That day, Miles is exceptionally kind to the governess. He even volunteers to play the piano for her. Suddenly the governess asks where Flora is. Little Miles does not know, so... | [
"The next day, after lessons, Mrs. Grose found a moment to say to me\nquietly: \"Have you written, miss?\"",
"\"Yes--I've written.\" But I didn't add--for the hour--that my letter,\nsealed and directed, was still in my pocket. There would be time enough\nto send it before the messenger should go to the village. M... |
1,866 | 209_sections_21-22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Early the next morning, Mrs. Grose comes to the governess' room and tells her that little Flora was "so markedly feverish that an illness was perhaps at hand." All of Flora's fears are directed against the governess. She is afraid of seeing her again, and pleads to be spared the sight of the governess. The governess as... | [
"Before a new day, in my room, had fully broken, my eyes opened to Mrs.\nGrose, who had come to my bedside with worse news. Flora was so markedly\nfeverish that an illness was perhaps at hand; she had passed a night of\nextreme unrest, a night agitated above all by fears that had for their\nsubject not in the least... |
1,867 | 209_sections_23-24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Flora is gone, Miles joins the governess, and they talk about how they are alone. The governess explains that she stayed to be with and help Miles. She reminds him that she is willing to do anything for him, and he promises that he will tell her anything she wants to know. First, she asks him if he took the lette... | [
"\"Oh, more or less.\" I fancy my smile was pale. \"Not absolutely. We\nshouldn't like that!\" I went on.",
"\"No--I suppose we shouldn't. Of course we have the others.\"",
"\"We have the others--we have indeed the others,\" I concurred.",
"\"Yet even though we have them,\" he returned, still with his hands i... |
1,854 | 209_prologue_and_chapter_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Prologue An unnamed narrator describes a house party at which ghost stories are told. The guests agree that a story in which a ghost visits a child is especially eerie, and an older guest named Douglas indicates that he knows a story in which a ghost visits two children. Everyone present wants to hear the story, but Do... | [
"The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but\nexcept the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve\nin an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no\ncomment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case\nhe had met in which such a visita... |
1,855 | 209_chapter_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Together with Flora, the governess drives out to meet Miles. The governess is unsettled by a letter from her employer that came in the mail on her first day. Enclosed was another letter, from Miles's headmaster, saying that Miles is no longer welcome at school. Distressed by the thought that Miles might be a troublemak... | [
"I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a\nlittle seesaw of the right throbs and the wrong. After rising, in town,\nto meet his appeal, I had at all events a couple of very bad days--found\nmyself doubtful again, felt indeed sure I had made a mistake. In this\nstate of mind I spent the... |
1,856 | 209_chapter_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The governess is late picking up Miles, whom she finds standing outside the inn exuding the same beauty and purity as Flora. Joining Mrs. Grose back at Bly, the governess rejects, on the basis of Miles's attractive appearance, any charges she or the headmaster may have made against Miles. She determines to do nothing i... | [
"This came home to me when, two days later, I drove over with Flora to\nmeet, as Mrs. Grose said, the little gentleman; and all the more for\nan incident that, presenting itself the second evening, had deeply\ndisconcerted me. The first day had been, on the whole, as I have\nexpressed, reassuring; but I was to see ... |
1,858 | 209_chapter_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Confused, the governess wonders what sort of mystery Bly might hold. Meeting Mrs. Grose at the house, she points to the evening's beauty as her reason for staying out so late. For days, the governess reflects on her encounter with the intruder. Meanwhile, her time spent with Miles and Flora goes smoothly. Still wonderi... | [
"It was not that I didn't wait, on this occasion, for more, for I was\nrooted as deeply as I was shaken. Was there a \"secret\" at Bly--a mystery\nof Udolpho or an insane, an unmentionable relative kept in unsuspected\nconfinement? I can't say how long I turned it over, or how long, in\na confusion of curiosity and... |
1,834 | 209_chapter_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Grose, breathless, asks the governess why she looks so frightened. The governess responds by saying she cannot go to church and claims that what Mrs. Grose saw was not half as bad as what she herself saw just a few moments ago. She then bewilders and frightens her colleague by detailing her experience with the int... | [
"Oh, she let me know as soon as, round the corner of the house, she\nloomed again into view. \"What in the name of goodness is the matter--?\"\nShe was now flushed and out of breath.",
"I said nothing till she came quite near. \"With me?\" I must have made a\nwonderful face. \"Do I show it?\"",
"\"You're as whi... |
1,835 | 209_chapter_vi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The governess and Mrs. Grose discuss the governess's encounter with what they assume to be the ghost of Peter Quint. With a feeling of sudden clarity, the governess exclaims that Quint had been looking for Miles. She wonders why neither child has ever mentioned the man. Mrs. Grose reveals that Quint had been "too free"... | [
"It took of course more than that particular passage to place us together\nin presence of what we had now to live with as we could--my dreadful\nliability to impressions of the order so vividly exemplified, and my\ncompanion's knowledge, henceforth--a knowledge half consternation and\nhalf compassion--of that liabi... |
1,836 | 209_chapter_vii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrative moves forward to later that afternoon, when the governess informs Mrs. Grose of the encounter. She claims that the children "know" and are keeping things to themselves, explaining that Flora saw a woman at the lake but said nothing. The governess describes the vision as dressed in black, with a dreadful f... | [
"I got hold of Mrs. Grose as soon after this as I could; and I can give\nno intelligible account of how I fought out the interval. Yet I still\nhear myself cry as I fairly threw myself into her arms: \"They KNOW--it's\ntoo monstrous: they know, they know!\"",
"\"And what on earth--?\" I felt her incredulity as sh... |
1,837 | 209_chapter_viii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meeting again later, the governess and Mrs. Grose determine to keep their wits about them. That night they talk in the governess's room until the governess is convinced that Mrs. Grose believes her. The governess returns to her pupils and feels ashamed at having thought Flora capable of cunning. Later, she asks Mrs. Gr... | [
"What I had said to Mrs. Grose was true enough: there were in the matter\nI had put before her depths and possibilities that I lacked resolution\nto sound; so that when we met once more in the wonder of it we were of a\ncommon mind about the duty of resistance to extravagant fancies. We were\nto keep our heads if w... |
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