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[cleolinda]

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Comments

[particle_person]

I haven't read Turn of the Screw, but I read the part you quoted as a miscarriage not a botched abortion? I dunno.

[cleolinda]

I'm just telling you what they said. I don't think I would have figured it out either way myself.

[particle_person]

Maybe James never decided either. Like "something nasty in the woodshed."

[readerofprey]

I think it definitely implies that she left because she was pregnant, so it could have been due to the pregnancy or a botched abortion; or he killed her; or she starved after leaving her job. I think the main point is that though her death was mysterious, it was definitely a result of the affair.

[cleolinda]

I'm pretty sure it says he dies before she does, though, so he couldn't have killed her himself, at least.