I charged them to conceal from you, before I ever saw you, all knowledge of the curse of the place; merely because I feared Adele never would have a governess to stay if she knew with what inmate she was housed, and my plans would not permit me to remove the maniac elsewhere--though I possess an old house, Ferndean Manor, even more retired and hidden than this, where I could have lodged her safely enough, had not a scruple about the unhealthiness of the situation, in the heart of a wood, made my conscience recoil from the arrangement.
Y ahora debo decirte que, si al principio oculté la existencia de una perturbada aquí, era porque temía que ninguna institutriz hubiera querido residir en una casa en esas condiciones. Cierto que yo podía haber llevado a la loca a otro sitio aún más escondido que poseo: Ferndean Manor, cuya insalubre situación en el corazón de un bosque tal vez me hubiera librado tan pronto de esa carga que arrastro.