Scarce anything in the whole history seems to me so odd as this fact that my real beginning of fear was one, as I may say, with the instinct of sparing my companion.
整段经历中,几乎没有什么比这一点更令我觉得奇怪:我真正开始害怕时,也恰好本能地想让同伴免受惊扰。
— Henry James · The Turn of the Screw (1898) · Chapter IV —