"And what on earth --?" I felt her incredulity as she held me.
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"She has told you?" she panted.
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"Not a word -- that's the horror. She kept it to herself! The child of eight, THAT child!" Unutterable still, for me, was the stupefaction of it.
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"No -- of HER." I was conscious as I spoke that I looked prodigious things, for I got the slow reflection of them in my companion's face. "Another person -- this time; but a figure of quite as unmistakable horror and evil: a woman in black, pale and dreadful -- with such an air also, and such a face! -- On the other side of the lake. I was there with the child -- quiet for the hour; and in the midst of it she came."
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Mrs. Grose took it as she might have taken a blow in the stomach.
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Then, as she released me, I made it out to her, made it out perhaps only now with full coherency even to myself. "Two hours ago, in the garden"-- I could scarce articulate --"Flora SAW!"
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Yet I still hear myself cry as I fairly threw myself into her arms: "They KNOW -- it's too monstrous: they know, they know!"
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"Why, all that WE know -- and heaven knows what else besides!"
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"I was there -- I saw with my eyes: saw that she was perfectly aware."
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Mrs. Grose, of course, could only gape the wider.
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"Do you mean aware of HIM?"
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"Then how do you know?"
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I got hold of Mrs. Grose as soon after this as I could; and I can give no intelligible account of how I fought out the interval.
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My friend, with an odd impulse, fell back a step.
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"It's only then to spare you."
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"And without coming nearer?"
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"Miss Jessel?"
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"Was she someone you've never seen?"
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"Yes. But someone the child has. Someone YOU have."
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Then, to show how I had thought it all out: "My predecessor -- the one who died."
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"Miss Jessel. You don't believe me?" I pressed.
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"From where they come from! She just appeared and stood there -- but not so near."
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This drew from me, in the state of my nerves, a flash of impatience.
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"No, no -- there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don't know what I DON'T see -- what I DON'T fear!"
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"Then ask Flora -- SHE'S sure!" But I had no sooner spoken than I caught myself up. "No, for God's sake, DON'T! She'll say she isn't -- she'll lie!"
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She turned right and left in her distress. "How can you be sure?"
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"Came how -- from where?"
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Mrs. Grose was not too bewildered instinctively to protest. "Ah, how CAN you?"
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"Because I'm clear. Flora doesn't want me to know."
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"Oh, for the effect and the feeling, she might have been as close as you!"
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Mrs. Grose tried to keep up with me. "You mean you're afraid of seeing her again?"
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But my companion only looked wan. "I don't understand you."
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"Oh, no; that's nothing -- now!" Then I explained. "It's of NOT seeing her."
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At the image of this possibility Mrs. Grose for a moment collapsed, yet presently to pull herself together again, as if from the positive force of the sense of what, should we yield an inch, there would really be to give way to. "Dear, dear -- we must keep our heads! And after all, if she doesn't mind it --!" she even tried a grim joke. "Perhaps she likes it!"
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"Likes SUCH things -- a scrap of an infant!"
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"Why, it's that the child may keep it up -- and that the child assuredly WILL -- without my knowing it."
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"Oh, we must clutch at THAT -- we must cling to it! If it isn't a proof of what you say, it's a proof of -- God knows what! For the woman's a horror of horrors."
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"Isn't it just a proof of her blessed innocence?" my friend bravely inquired. She brought me, for the instant, almost round.
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"God help us, no. Of something much worse."
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"At you, do you mean -- so wickedly?"
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"Ah, with such awful eyes!" She stared at mine as if they might really have resembled them.
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Mrs. Grose tried to see it. "Fixed her?"
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"Then you admit it's what she was?" I cried.
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I made her turn pale. "Intention?"
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After a little she turned round. "The person was in black, you say?"
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"Dear me, no -- I could have borne that. She gave me never a glance. She only fixed the child."
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"Worse than dislike?" -- This left her indeed at a loss.
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"Do you mean of dislike?"
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"With a determination -- indescribable. With a kind of fury of intention."
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"Know? By seeing her! By the way she looked."
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Mrs. Grose, at this, fixed her eyes a minute on the ground; then at last raising them, "Tell me how you know," she said.
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"Tell me how you know," my friend simply repeated.
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"To get hold of her." Mrs. Grose -- her eyes just lingering on mine -- gave a shudder and walked to the window; and while she stood there looking out I completed my statement. "THAT'S what Flora knows."
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"In spite of the difference --?"
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"In mourning -- rather poor, almost shabby. But -- yes -- with extraordinary beauty." I now recognized to what I had at last, stroke by stroke, brought the victim of my confidence, for she quite visibly weighed this. "Oh, handsome -- very, very," I insisted; "wonderfully handsome. But infamous." She slowly came back to me. "Miss Jessel -- WAS infamous." She once more took my hand in both her own, holding it as tight as if to fortify me against the increase of alarm I might draw from this disclosure. "They were both infamous!" she finally said.
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So, for a little, we faced it once more together; and I found absolutely a degree of help in seeing it now so straight. "I appreciate!" I said, "the great decency of your not having hitherto spoken; but the time has certainly come to give me the whole thing." She appeared to assent to this, but still only in silence; seeing which I went on: "I must have it now. Of what did she die? Come, there was something between them."
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"There was everything."
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"The fellow was a hound."
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There was a way to deal with that, and I dealt; the more readily for my full vision -- on the evidence -- of our employer's late clever, good-looking "own" man; impudent, assured, spoiled, depraved.
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"Oh, of their rank, their condition"-- she brought it woefully out. "SHE was a lady."
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"And he so dreadfully below," said Mrs. Grose.
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I felt that I doubtless needn't press too hard, in such company, on the place of a servant in the scale; but there was nothing to prevent an acceptance of my companion's own measure of my predecessor's abasement.
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I turned it over; I again saw. "Yes -- she was a lady."
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"With HER?"
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"With them all."
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Mrs. Grose considered as if it were perhaps a little a case for a sense of shades. "I've never seen one like him. He did what he wished."
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It was as if now in my friend's own eyes Miss Jessel had again appeared.
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I seemed at any rate, for an instant, to see their evocation of her as distinctly as I had seen her by the pond; and I brought out with decision: "It must have been also what SHE wished!"
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"No -- I know nothing. I wanted not to know; I was glad enough I didn't; and I thanked heaven she was well out of this!"
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Mrs. Grose's face signified that it had been indeed, but she said at the same time: "Poor woman -- she paid for it!"
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"Yet you had, then, your idea --"
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"Of her real reason for leaving? Oh, yes -- as to that. She couldn't have stayed. Fancy it here -- for a governess! And afterward I imagined -- and I still imagine. And what I imagine is dreadful."
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"Then you do know what she died of?" I asked.
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I burst, as I had, the other time, made her burst, into tears; she took me to her motherly breast, and my lamentation overflowed.
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"I don't do it!" I sobbed in despair; "I don't save or shield them! It's far worse than I dreamed -- they're lost!"
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"Not so dreadful as what I do," I replied; on which I must have shown her -- as I was indeed but too conscious -- a front of miserable defeat. It brought out again all her compassion for me, and at the renewed touch of her kindness my power to resist broke down.
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