ore than that- I only asked that he should know;....'As with the technique of the unsaid, James omission throughout the story of other witnesses or evidence, encourages the reader to imagine possibilities, and the suggestion arises here for the first time, that the apparition was part of her fantasy, although she makes it clear that the,Man who met my eyes was not the person I had precipitately supposed'..... I had not seen it in Harley Street- I had not seen it anywhere.'It had already been suggested twice to the reader that the person she had been thinking of, the young gentleman in Harley Street, was the object of her affections. First by the friend' of the Governess who reveals her story to his friends gathered round the fire;I see. She was in love.'You are acute. Yes, she was in love. That is she had been. Thatcame out- she couldn't tell her story without its coming out.'and again when she confessed to Mrs Grose that she had been carried away' in London.In Harley Street?'In Harley Street.'Well Miss, you're not the first- and you won't be the last.'That the governess questions her own lucidity, meaning she has insight of the situation, makes it difficult for the reader to decide whether she has been carried away' by her imagination or not, as in the passage where she recounts that:It produced in me, this figure in clear twilight, I remember, twodistinct gasps of emotion, which were sharply, the shock of my first..( at first she thought she was seeing her employer on the tower. He did stand there!')...and that of my second surprise. My second was a violent perception of the mistake of my first; the man who metmy eyes was not the person I had precipitately supposed.'When she subsequently describes the man in great detail to Mrs Grose, and has the man in her vision confidently identified by the latter as Mr Quint, it gives weight to her story, if we suppose Mrs Grose to be innocent of any ulterior motive, or flights of fancy herse...
