Emma Thompson Reads from Audible’s THE TURN OF THE SCREW

Emma Thompson Reads from Audible’s THE TURN OF THE SCREW

to mark for the house the high State I cultivated I decreed that my meals with the boy should be served as we called it downstairs so that I had been awaiting him in the ponderous pomp of the room outside of the window of which I had had from Mrs grow that first scared Sunday my flash of something it would scarce have done to call light here at present I felt aresh for I had felt it again and again how my equilibrium depended on the success of my rigid will the will to shut my eyes as tight as possible to the truth that what I had to deal with was revoltingly against nature I could only get on at all by taking nature into my confidence and my account by treating my monstrous ordeal as a push in a direction unusual of course and unpleasant but demanding after all for a fair front only another turn of the scw of ordinary human virtue no attempt nonetheless could well require more tact than just this attempt to supply oneself all the nature how could I put even a little of that article into a suppression of reference to what had occurred how on the other hand could I make reference without a new plunge into the Hideous obscure well a sort of answer after a Time had come to me and it was so far confirmed as that I was met incontestably by the quickened vision of what was rare in my little companion it was indeed as if he had found even now as he had so often found at lessons still some other delicate way to ease me off wasn’t there light in the fact which as we shared our Solitude broke out with a specious glitter it had never yet quite born the fact that opportunity aiding precious opportunity which had now come it would be Preposterous with a child so endowed to forgo the help one might rest from absolute intelligence what had his Intelligence been given him for but to save him mightn’t one to reach his mind risk the stretch of an angular arm over his character it was as if when we were face to face in the dining room he had literally shown me the way the roast mutton was on the table and I had dispensed with attendance miles before he sat down stood a moment with his hands in his pockets and looked at the joint on which he seemed on the point of passing some humorous judgment but what he presently produced was I say my dear is she really very awfully ill

From BroadwayWorld’s Archive: Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Emmy winner Emma Thompson lends her immense talent and experienced voice to Henry James’ Gothic ghost tale, The Turn of the Screw, which Audible Studios released today.