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THE TURN OF THE SCREW
HENRY JAMES
Setting: England
Characters: the governess
Mrs Grose
Flora and Miles
Prologue

A group of friends gathered around a fire in a country house outside London on Christmas Eve entertain themselves by telling ghost stories. When a man named Griffin tells the story of a little boy who experiences a ghostly visitation, his friend Douglas notes, a few nights later, that the age of the child "gives the effect another turn of the screw" and proposes a ghost story unsurpassed for "dreadfulness" about two children. The manuscript of this true story has been kept in a locked drawer for twenty years, since the death of its writer. The story, which the writer and now Douglas have kept secret for forty years, Douglas's younger sister's governess, with whom he became friends when he was a university student at home on holiday. Douglas prepares to read his story.
He prefaces his actual reading with background information about the governess, the youngest daughter of a poor country parson from Hampshire, who at age of twenty answered an advertisement placed by a gentleman seeking a governess for his orphaned niece and nephew. The young woman, met with the gentleman on London's Harley Street. She was immediately impressed by his wealth and good looks. The children lived at his lonely country house, Bly, in Essex, where the housekeeper, Mrs. Grose, looked after little girl and to which the little boy, who had been sent away to school, would soon be coming home for the holidays. The man made the governess promise that she would never contact or trouble him. Having agreed to his conditions, the governess never saw the gentleman again.
Chapter I
The governess recalls the doubts she felt after accepting the position from the gentleman in Harley Street. These doubts plagued her during the long coach ride, and she is surprised when she arrives at the house - impressed by its size, its lawns and flowers, so different from her small house. A woman and a little girl meet her at the door.
The little girl Flora, is the most beautiful child she has ever seen. She can barely sleep that night because of her excitement. She has been given one of the best and largest bedrooms in the house.
She hears birds sing, but also thinks that she has heard a few unnatural sounds coming from inside the house, sounds like the far-away cry of a child and a footstep outside her door. Instead, she focuses on Flora, who will sleep in her room with her. She had discussed Flora's timidity and decided with Mrs Grose to allow her one last night in Mrs. Grose's room.
When the governess says that she has already been carried away "in London," Mrs. Grose wants to know if it was "in Harley Street?" The governess confirms it, and Mrs. Grose tells her she's not the first, and she won't be the last. They proceed to talk about Miles, who is not coming home tomorrow, but on Friday.
The next day, the governess unable to concentrate enough to give lessons, decides to get to know Flora, the child shows her the grounds - including empty rooms, crooked staircases, and a tall tower that makes the governess dizzy. Within half an hour, they are friends.

Chapter II
The next day, the governess receives a letter from her employer. He has enclosed an envelope from the head master of Miles's school along with a note ordering the governess to deal with it but not to report back to him. She leaves the letter to be read in her room just before going to bed. Its contents, give her another sleepless night.
On the following morning, she tells Mrs. Grose that Miles has been dismissed from his school.
That evening, the governess again approaches Mrs. Grose, who she thinks is trying to avoid her. She asks if Mrs. Grose had meant that Miles had never been bad, and Mrs. Grose replies that she prefers a boy with the spirit to be naughty. When the governess worries about boys with the spirit to corrupt, Mrs. Grose laughs at her, wondering if she thinks Miles will corrupt her.
Before meeting Miles, the governess asks Mrs. Grose about the children's former governess. She says that the woman was young and pretty and she gives little information about the woman. Only later did the master tell her that the woman had died, though he never said of what.
Chapter III
The governess notes that Mrs. Grose's refusing to tell her any details regarding the previous governess's death, did not impede their continued friendship.
The governess meets Miles at the coach stop and instantly perceives him to be innocent and beautiful. When they arrive at Bly, she expresses to Mrs. Grose her disbelief over the contents of the letter and her intention neither to reply to the letter nor to write the children's uncle nor mention the letter to Miles.
Though she remembers intending to resume Miles's studies that summer, she instead spent weeks enjoying herself and her charges. The children give her little trouble; she can only imagine their lives to be like fairy tales.
During those long summer days, after the children have been put to bed and before the sun goes down, the governess has her "own hour," when she walks around the grounds of the country. She is happy because she knows she is giving pleasure to her employer for doing as he was asked.
One evening, the governess indulges in a frequent fantasy that a handsome someone - presumably her employer - would appear in the path and smiles his approval. This night, as she comes into view of the house, she is surprised to see him standing up on one of the two large towers of the house.
Chapter IV
By the time she returns home, it is already dark, and Mrs. Grose's surprise at her agitated appearance convince her that the housekeeper had nothing to do with the figure she had seen.
In the following days she observes the servants, wondering if they have played a prank, and decides they have not. She decides that the man must have been a traveller who boldly and inappropriately trespassed on the tower for the view it provided.
The governess immerses herself in life with her charming pupils, making constant discoveries about them. Miles is so good and innocent she decides the head master must have been vindictive and mistaken. The children are angelic, and Miles never speaks of school.
One Sunday, the rain prevents them from going to church in the morning, and so the governess and Mrs. Grose plan to go to the evening service after putting the children to bed. Realizing she has left her gloves in the dining room, the governess goes there and is stopped by the figure of a man - the same man she had seen earlier in the tower - standing outside and staring in the window. She realizes he is there looking for someone other than her.
She runs out of the house to look for him outside, but he has already vanished. Finally, she goes back to the window, where she shocks Mrs. Grose, who has just entered the dining room, just as the man had surprised her, and wonders why the housekeeper is scared.
Chapter V
Mrs. Grose rushes outside the house, where she meets the governess, and demands to know what is wrong with her, the governess tells her that through that same window, she saw something much worse and more frightening.
The housekeeper demands to know if the man was a stranger and why she had not been told. She tells her she has seen the man in the tower and in the spot in which they stand.
He wasn’t a gentleman with curly red hair, a pale long face, red whiskers, arched eyebrows, small sharp eyes, a large mouth with thin lips like an actor. He is handsome but dressed in someone else's clothes, without a hat. Mrs. Grose says it is Peter Quint, the master's valet, who was at Bly with the master the previous year.
Chapter VI
The governess is so shocked that she must lie down for an hour. After that, she and Mrs. Grose don't go to church. They decide to protect Miles and Flora.
The governess says that Quint was looking for Miles and that Quint wants to appear to the children. She would see the ghost again to protect the children. She finds it strange that the children have never mentioned Quint. Mrs. Grose says that Flora does not know that he is dead, but Miles, was "great friends" with Quint.
In the following days, the governess worries that there is something Mrs. Grose has not told her and thinks about Quint's death. He had been found dead on the road to the village, and is believed, after an inquest, to have died by accident after slipping down an icy hill while drunk. There is also much gossip about his secrets and vices. The governess is able to find happiness thinking about her heroism in protecting the children.
One afternoon, she leaves Miles reading in the house, and goes with Flora to the lake on the property. She becomes aware, that there is another person present across the lake. She prepares her reaction - hoping the person is the postman or a messenger - while staring at her sewing and then looks over at Flora, worried that she will see. Suddenly turning her back to the water.
Chapter VII
The governess rushes to find Mrs. Grose, telling her that Flora saw a ghost at the lake and said nothing. Across the lake, a woman had appeared. She was no one the governess has ever seen, but she says, someone Flora and Mrs. Grose had seen - Miss Jessel.
The governess insists that Flora knows about Miss Jessel and now, her greatest fear is not seeing the ghost but that Flora might be in touch with the ghost without her knowledge.
Mrs. Grose wonders how the governess knows this about Miss Jessel. The governess explains it is from the gaze of intention, which the ghost fixed on Flora, and from her wicked appearance. She was dressed in a shabby black dress but was very beautiful, though infamous. Mrs. Grose confirms that Miss Jessel was "infamous" - together with Quint. Miss Jessel and Quint had a relationship and implies that Miss Jessel left because she was pregnant.
The governess feels defeated. Mrs. Grose attempts to comfort her. She has not protected the children, she realizes.

Chapter VIII
The governess talks with Mrs. Grose in her room late at night. She wonders how, she could have given such detailed descriptions of the two ghosts such that Mrs. Grose was able to identify them.
Upon seeing her pupils the next day, she finds it hard to believe that they could be at all evil. Their beautiful, innocent appearance and manner forces her to replay the moment at the lake over in her mind and the reasons for her certainty that Flora saw the ghosts and tried to conceal it from her.
She wonders why Mrs. Grose spoke of Miles being bad when he has been a little angel while she has known him. Mrs. Grose explains that while Quint was there, he and Miles were "perpetually together." Worried, she finally spoke out of her station to Miss Jessel to protest and was told to mind her own business.
Her many questions bring Mrs. Grose to reveal that she reminded Miles himself that he was a little gentleman and Quint a "base menial." She also recalls Miles lying about times he had spent with Quint and his denial of knowing anything about Quint and Miss Jessel's relationship. The governess is certain that Miles knew the truth.
The governess tells her that Miles's bad acts are fewer than she had thought and that until further evidence arises, she does not accuse the children of anything
Chapter IX
The governess decides to wait as the days pass, keeping her fears from her pupils. She worries that they will notice the extra attention she shows them and wonders if perhaps their increased affection for her covers deeper secrets.
She continues to avoid the subject of Miles's schooling and continues his lessons herself. Still, she finds it unbelievable that the Miles she knows was kicked out of school. At Bly, Miles and Flora shows their musical talent, and Miles is especially good at playing the piano by ear. The children's tenderness toward each other is remarkable.
There is a library at Bly full of eighteenth-century novels. The governess has borrowed Fielding's Amelia and sits in her room reading it, as Flora sleeps in her little curtained bed. The governess has the impression she had on her first night there that something is going on in the house. She takes her candle, locks the door behind her and goes into the hall to investigate.
As she reaches the top of the stairs, her candle suddenly blows out. In the moonlight coming through a window, she can see Quint standing on a landing halfway up the stairs. She is terrified, and they stare at each other for an interminable period of time, saying nothing. Finally, Quint turns his back and moves off down the staircase.
Chapter X
The governess returns to her room and sees that, Flora's bed is empty. She gets frightened and tears at the bed sheets. Finally, she sees movement behind the curtain covering the window, and Flora emerges from behind it.
Before the governess can confront the child, Flora calls her naughty and demands to know where she was. Flora herself explains that knowing the governess was gone; she went to the window to look for her but saw no one out there.
In the nights after that, the governess sits up late and often walks around the halls. One night, she comes to the stairs and sees a woman sitting below, her back to the governess, holding her head in her hands as if she is upset. The woman then vanishes.
On the eleventh night since she last saw Quint, the governess goes to bed earlybut wakes up suddenly at one o'clock. The candle she had left burning has been blown out, she thinks of Flora. Once again, Flora is hiding behind the curtain, looking out the window, and she does not notice as the governess leaves the room.
Out in the hall, the governess searches for a room from which to look out and see what Flora sees. She is tempted to go into Miles's room, look throught his window, and shock him into telling her the truth, but she decides not to, since he "might be innocent." Also, the ghost she believes is outside is concerned with Flora, not Miles.
Instead, the governess finally decides to enter a large empty room on the first floor,the moon makes the grounds outside quite visible, she sees a figure looking up at a window above her. She feels sick to realize that the figure is Miles.
Chapter XI
The next day, the governess talks to Mrs. Grose. She is comforted by the housekeeper's calm attitude but believes that it is a result of a lack of imagination.
The governess reflect on the previous night. In order not to disturb the other people in the house, she had walked down to the lawn to meet Miles. He came straight to her and she walked with him in silence back to his room. She wonders how he will explain things to her, thinking first that he has finally been caught in a situation he cannot excuse or explain.
The governess is overcome and sinks down on the bed, realizing that Miles is too clever for her. She does not know how to confront him.
Finally, she asks Miles to tell her the truth about why he was outside and what he was doing there. Miles explains that he sat up and read till midnight, in order to be extra bad. He had arranged with Flora that she should look outside, so as to wake up the governess and get her to see him out there. The governess realizes she's fallen into the children's trap.
Chapter XII
The governess and Mrs. Grose continue their conversation. The governess emphasizes the last comment Miles made to her before she left his room,she believes he is referring to the worse things he did at school.
Mrs. Grose can barely believe the governess, but the governess insists that anyone who had seen the children in the past nights would understand. She sees the fact that they have never mentioned Quint and Miss Jessel and that Miles has not mentioned his school. She says that she may appear crazy and that anyone else who had seen the things she has would be driven crazy, but she is actually more lucid.
The governess explains that the children have been living a secret life and belong to Quint and Miss Jessel. She proclaims that they can destroy the children and that they will go to them and be killed unless the governess and Mrs. Grose can stop them.
Chapter XIII
For a month, the governess lives suspecting her pupils and saying nothing. She is sure that it is not her imagination but that Flora and Miles are aware of her knowledge. Conversations take sharp turns whenever they approach the subject of the dead or life after death. The children seem to know that she wants to bring up the subject of Quint and Miss Jessel. Instead, all talk centers around the governess's family, neighbours, and even pets, but no one touches upon the children's past. The children's constant questions about her life make her feel most suspicious of their intentions.
Summer has turned to autumn since she saw Miss Jessel on the stairs, and she has not encountered either ghost since then she has not seen them at all. She in fact wishes she could see them and knows the worst and wonders if she has lost her ability to see the ghosts. This especially frightens her because she believes the children continue to see the ghosts even when she cannot.
There are times that she is with the children when she is certain the ghosts are also present, though invisible to her. She wants to confront the children but their actions in these instances are all the more friendly and sweet.
Chapter XIV
On the way to church one Sunday morning, the governess walks with Miles while Flora walks with Mrs. Grose. The governess wonders why the children are so obedient when she keeps them with her at all times. Miles suddenly asks the governess when he will go back to school, the governess stops short and feels helpless to answer. The governess takes the opportunity to ask him again why he did it, and he says that it was to show her that he could but that he won't do it again. He asks again when he is going back to school.
Hoping to put him off until they get into the church, where he cannot ask any more questions, the governess tries to find out why Miles wants to go back to school if he is happy at Bly, and he finally tells her that he wants to see more life and wants his own sort.
Miles then asks about his uncle's opinion on his schooling, and the governess lets it slip that the uncle doesn't care. Miles wonders if he can be made to come to visit and says he will be the one to make him do so.

Chapter XV
The governess does not follow Miles into the church but instead sits on a gravestone outside, considering the meaning of his words. She realizes that Miles has sensed that she is very afraid of something and believes that he will use that knowledge to gain himself freedom.
She realizes that the house is nearly empty, with all the servants out church, but that even if she disappeared just until dinner, the children would confront her for her reasons.
She rushes home, deciding to leave. She is overcome, worrying about arranging transportation, and she sinks down onto the stairs until she suddenly remembers that she saw Miss Jessel sitting in that place. The governess rushes up to the schoolroom to collect her belongings. There, she sees a woman sitting at the table, with her head on her hand, she first thinks she is a servant. When the woman does not look up after she has entered the room, she realizes that it is Miss Jessel. Miss Jessel stands up and stares at the governess but the ghost then vanishes. The governess feels as if she, and not the ghost, is the intruder and knows that she must stay.
Chapter XVI
When Mrs. Grose and the children return from church. The governess tells her that she went for a walk to meet some "friends."
The governess informs Mrs. Grose that she in fact did not like their silence and then tells her that it is "all out" between her and Miles and that she saw Miss Jessel . She found her in the schoolroom, and she says that Miss Jessel said that she suffers the torments of the damned and that she wants to share them with Flora. Mrs. Grose is terrified.
The governess says all that doesn't matter, though, because she will send for her employer. Mrs. Grose begs her to do so, and the governess says that she will, even though Miles tries using her fear of doing so against her. The employer will not be able to reproach her for not sending Miles to school because she will show him the letter from the old school master.
She believes that Miles was expelled for "wickedness" - since he is clearly perfect in all other respects. She believes it is the uncle's fault for leaving the children for Quint and Miss Jessel.

Chapter XVII
The governess sits in her room trying to begin a letter to her employer. With nothing yet written, she goes and listens outside Miles's door to see if he is awake. He calls for her to come in.
Inside the room, Miles tells the governess that he lies awake and the governess tells him that if he wishes, he can go back to school, but that it will be another school. She mentions that he has not once spoken about his school or anyone there since coming home, and when Miles expresses surprise that he has not mentioned it, she believes that the hand of Peter Quint is involved.
The governess says that she thought he was happy, living only in the present at Bly, but he says he wants to get away. He likes Bly but he wants his uncle to come down and settle everything with the governess. The governess asks what he will have to tell his uncle that he has kept from her, since the uncle cannot send him back to his old school. Miles insists he wants a new school.
He repeats that he wants her to let him alone, and she is afraid that means abandoning him. She tells him she has begun a letter to his uncle and asks the boy what happened "before." He asks in reply "what happened?" and she is brought to her knees, proclaiming that she wants to help save him. Suddenly, a chill hits the room, though the window remains closed, the candle goes out, and Miles shrieks. He then says that he blew the candle out.
Chapter XVIII
The next day, the governess tells Mrs. Grose that she has written, even though she has not yet actually mailed the letter. She has spent the morning teaching the children, who performed brilliantly at their lessons. She finds Miles to be extraordinary.
After the meal, Miles asks the governess if she can play the piano for her. The governess is so distracted by his piano playing that she loses all track of time. When he finishes, she suddenly wonders where Flora has been.
Looking for Flora, the governess first goes to Mrs. Grose's room, but the child is not there with the housekeeper. This is the first time the governess has let Flora out of her sight for a long time.
Mrs. Grose wants next to search other rooms in the house, but the governess says that Flora is outside. She believes Flora is with Miss Jessel and that Miles is with Quint in the schoolroom. Miles's piano-playing was part of a plan to distract the governess while Flora went to Miss Jessel and giving Miles a chance to see Quint while the governess searched for Flora.
The governess decides that she will go look for Flora, She leaves the letter on the table for the servant Luke to be mailed. When Mrs. Grose wants to get a coat and hat before going out into the damp weather, the governess tells her to stay and check the schoolroom instead. Afraid of being left with Miles and Quint, the housekeeper agrees to go with the governess after Flora.
Chapter XIX
The governess and housekeeper go straight to the lake. She believes that the children talk of the ghosts when they are alone and say terrible things.
When they reach the lake, Flora is nowhere, and the boat is gone. Mrs. Grose wonders how the child could have taken it alone, but the governess reminds her that she has Miss Jessel with her. They spot the boat across the lake and walk around the banks to the spot.
The women spot Flora, who picks a withered fern and holds it out to them. Mrs. Grose breaks the silence by rushing over and embracing the child. Flora continues to stare at the governess and finally drops the fern.
Mrs. Grose finally stands, holding Flora's hand, and Flora looks at the bareheaded governess and asks where her things are. The governess asks the same of her and Flora responds by asking where Miles is. Finally, the governess can control herself no longer and asks, "Where, my pet, is Miss Jessel?"
Chapter XX
Flora looks shocked at the governess's words. Mrs. Grose suddenly gives a cry, and the governess turns to see Miss Jessel standing on the opposite bank of the lake. She feels a thrill to know that she finally has proof. She points across the lake, and Mrs. Grose looks there, but Flora's eyes remain fixed on the governess in an expression of accusation. The governess is certain Flora can also see Miss Jessel, and she sees this cold calm with which the child looks at her as proof of her evilness. She shouts at the child that Miss Jessel is there and she knows it.
Mrs. Grose, shocks her when she asks where she sees anything. The governess tries to point Miss Jessel out, describing her, but Mrs. Grose cannot see her. The governess is shocked and terrified. Mrs. Grose turns to Flora, reassuring the child that there is no one there and that Miss Jessel is dead and buried, and turns to take Flora home. Flora now appears ugly to the governess, and she screams that she doesn't see anyone there and that she never has. The governess is certain that these words are controlled by someone else, and she finally says she's lost Flora, telling Mrs. Grose to take the child and go.
She gets up and goes to the house, where she does not see Flora or Mrs. Grose that night. She sits in the schoolroom, having her tea, and does not to ask the servants where Miles is. When he finally comes in and sits down at eight o'clock, they say nothing to each other.
Chapter XXI
Mrs. Grose comes to the governess's room while she is still in bed the next morning and tells her that Flora is feverish and ill and has been frightened all night of seeing the governess. The governess wants to know if she still denies seeing Miss Jessel, and Mrs. Grose says she can't push her on it. She agrees with the governess, that Flora has a "grand manner" about not wanting to speak to the governess again. Mrs. Grose is under the impression that Flora did not see anyone at the lake the day before.
The governess says that Flora and Miles have worked the situation to their advantage, and that Flora will try to get her uncle to dismiss her from her position as governess. She orders Mrs. Grose to leave and take Flora straight to the uncle and says that she is confident that Mrs. Grose's loyalty and Miles's will protect her. She does not want Miles and Flora to see each other alone before Mrs. Grose and Flora leave, and the housekeeper assures her that so far, that has not occurred.
The events of the previous evening, when Miles sat with her for two hours as if he wanted to confess, have made the governess believe that he is not lost to her. With a day or two more, she hopes to have him on her side - and if she doesn't, at least Mrs. Grose will be able to persuade the master to trust her. The housekeeper, who agrees to go to town with Flora immediately, says that she believes the governess because of the "appalling" things Flora has said in the past day - using horrible language that Mrs. Grose has heard before - saying things not about Miss Jessel but about the governess herself.
When the governess reminds Mrs. Grose that the master will have received her letter by the time she and Flora arrive, the housekeeper informs her that when she returned the previous evening, the letter was gone and when asked, Luke said he had never seen it. Miles must have taken it, and furthermore, she now believes he was expelled from school for stealing letters. At least, the offense provides Miles with an opportunity for a confession - after which, the governess believes, he will be saved, and so will she.
Chapter XXII
Once Mrs. Grose leaves, the governess realizes how lonely she is. She is very worried and nervous. The servants, because of Mrs. Grose and Flora's quick departure, know that something is wrong, and the governess must act very "grand," to keep from breaking down in front of the servants.
She realizes that the servants must see, too, the change in her power over Miles. Since the previous afternoon, he has ceased to seek her permission or tell her where he is going. From the servants, she learns that he ate breakfast with Mrs. Grose and Flora and then went out for a walk.
That evening, they have dinner in the formal dining room, the same room where the governess saw Quint through the window. The governess realizes it will take all the efforts of her will and "another turn of the screw of human virtue" to persevere in this unnatural situation. Once the servants leave, Miles asks the governess about Flora's sudden illness. The governess only tells him that "Bly didn't agree with her" and that she could see the illness coming. When he wonders why she didn't send her away earlier, the governess says she will get better as a result of the journey away from Bly.
The meal finishes in silence. Once the maid leaves, Miles stands up and announces that they are alone.
Chapter XXIII
The governess and Miles speak about the servants. He stands near the window, facing outside, as the governess takes a seat on the couch readying her for some terror.
Finally, Miles turns around and says that Bly agrees with him. They discuss how he has seen so much of it, walking around, during the past few days, and he asks if she likes it and if she minds being solonely. She tells him that she does it for his company and reminds him that she said she would do anything for him.
Miles thinks she asked him that to get him to tell her something - presumably what he did at school - and the governess suggests he tell her now. Miles suddenly becomes uneasy and wants to leave, and the governess is struck with how terrible a thing she is doing by bringing up this horrible subject with the child.
After a moment, Miles says he will tell her everything she wants but he wants to see Luke first. The governess feels ashamed for making him give this false excuse and as he is about to leave she asks if he took her letter the previous day.
Chapter XXIV
The governess suddenly notices Peter Quint standing outside the window. She grasps Miles and holds him with his back to the window. Immediately, the governess decides she can and will fight with Quint for Miles's soul and looks at the boy who now has sweat on his forehead.
Miles says that he took the letter, and the governess embraces him, feeling his heartbeat, while watching Quint outside the window. The boy is drenched in sweat. She asks Miles why he took the letter, and he says he wanted to know what she had said about him. Feeling triumphant, she proclaims that he found "nothing!" and he quietly agrees and tells her he has burnt it.
The governess then asks if Miles stole things at school, and he is surprised that she knows he wasn't allowed to go back. She says she knows "everything" and asks what he did. She feels as if she has won but "blind with victory" persists in asking to whom. He says only to a few people, and suddenly the governess worries if he is innocent and lets him go, the window is now empty.
The governess persists in asking, and Miles tells her that the boys he told must have repeated the things to people they liked and that the masters caught wind of it - but that the "things" were too bad to write in a letter. The governess demands to know what he said.
Miles moves, and Quint appears again behind the window. The governess screams "No more!" at him and Miles asks if "she" is here - which the governess takes to mean Miss Jessel. She screams that its not but tells him "it's at the window." Miles does not seem to see anything and finally asks if it's "he" -"Peter Quint - you devil," he says when she asks who he means, and screams Where she has Miles and Quint has lost him.
Miles jerks around and she catches him as he falls and cries out. She holds him for a minute and realizes that they are alone and Miles heart has stopped.