“The turn of a screw” Is a short story where a group of visitors are gathered discussing a possible rumor of a ghost appearing to a young, innocent child. A man named Douglas knows of a story about something along the line. Everyone wants to hear his story, but Douglas explains that he has to send for a manuscript. The story he wants to tell was once said by a governess who has been dead for about twenty years. She was once his sister's governess. When the group was told more about the governess, everyone wonders if she was in love. Douglas says that she was and that the beauty of her love was she has only saw the man she loved only twice. He was her employer and hired her but under a condition that she was to never trouble him, "never complain