of if confronted with supernatural apparitions. This in itself calls into the question whether or not she is inventing her story.With the children now being connected to Quint's appearances, the narrator begins to focus on their involvement in the phenomenon. Having already stated that a Deep obscurity continued to cover the region of the boy'sconduct at school.'she discovers on her interrogation of Mrs Grose that an unnatural relationship had existed between Miles and Quint. The Governess begins to realise that perhaps she has been premature in not investigating the boy's dismissal from school, and begins to reflect on her first judgement. She admits to Mrs Grose that she was under a spell and gave herself up to it in not alluding to the boy's school. I was dazzled by their loveliness.' She says of Miles: In appearance and demeanor he was the complete opposite of evil and corruption. There was nothing in his behaviour to suggest he was bad.' She was so captured by the beauty of Miles and Flora and their exceptional closeness that her judgement was clouded: We lived in a cloud of music and love and success and private theatricals.....They were extraordinarily at one.' However, in spite of her captivation, she is detached enough to observe that she:....came across traces of little understandings between them by which one of them should keep me occupied while the other slipped away.' She refers to her own unnatural composure on the subject of another school for Miles', and, that she should jeopardise the boy's education to keep him at Bly for her own needs or interests, tells us that she is not the responsible, down to earth character that her initial demeanor suggests. We begin to question her stability and whether or not the visions are real or in her imagination.Her misgivings about the children's innocence arise with the first appearance of a female vision, who she convinces herself was also seen by Flora. Before Mrs Grose eve...
