Henry James

Henry James by Martha Collins, University of Massachusetts-Boston What would she do? he asked, and what he said was what he knew that almost no one knew, or said: she could be one of the ones on whom nothing was lost. He placed her in her grandmother's house, his grandmother's house with two white doors on two red slabs that inside came together. He framed her there, in dim light, light let in through the green-papered panes of the unused door, to the room where she was reading. If he could take her out of the house, if he could let her see what there was to be seen on the border between the house and the garden, the garden and dangerous world, the border the world where he lived— If he could be the he who watched the she who was die she in him— who let me see what I had to see, who taught me to work in the dark— Volume 7 7 Numbers 2-3 ...