bout the children from her observations:Oh yes, we may sit here and look at them, and they may show off to us there to their fill; but even while they pretend to be lost in their fairy- tale they're steeped in their vision of the dead restored. He's not reading to her,' I declared; they're talking of them - they're talking of horrors! I go on, I know, as if I were crazy; and it's a wonder I'm not. What I've seen would have made you so; but it has only made me more lucid, made me get hold of still other things.'James provokes uncertainty again in the reader. The governess's analysis of her own predicament is very convincing, but at the same time, she has no real evidence that the children are conspiring. However, this element of her questioning her own lucidity for a second time, helps to add to the conviction of her story:My lucidity must have seemed awful.'The governess begins to take on the role of the children's saviour. She thinks they are being used as instruments of the devil through Quint and Miss Jessel:For the love of all the evil, in those dreadful days, the pair put into them. And to ply them with that evil still, to keep up the work of demons, is what brings the others back.'Quint and Miss Jessel have now gone from being disreputable characters or rascals' as Mrs Grose called them, to agents for the devil, and Mrs Grose is so panic stricken, she wants to send for the children's uncle. The governess refuses to ask her employer for help despite Mrs Grose's pleading, and threatens to leave if Mrs Grose loses her head and appeals to him on her behalf. She admits to herself that she could not bear his derision and contempt at her failure.Her lack of judgement here can be viewed in two ways. Is she in love with her employer as was suggested in the prologue, and so desperate to hang on to her position at Bly in the hope of a future with him, that she is prepared to sacrifice the well being of the children? This in itself...
