- first line
- The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child.
- last line
- We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.
- publication date
- 1898-00-00
- inception
- 1898-00-00
- Commons category
- The Turn of the Screw
- title
- The Turn of the Screw