The Turn of the Screw 螺丝在拧紧
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, butexcept the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve inan old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no commentuttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had metin which such a visitation had fallen on a child. The case, I may mention,was that of an apparition in just such an old house as had gathered us forthe occasion-- an appearance, of a dreadful kind, to a little boy sleeping inthe room with his mother and waking her up in the terror of it.
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, butexcept the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve inan old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no commentuttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had metin which such a visitation had fallen on a child. The case, I may mention,was that of an apparition in just such an old house as had gathered us forthe occasion-- an appearance, of a dreadful kind, to a little boy sleeping inthe room with his mother and waking her up in the terror of it.