In restless sleep and longing for contact with those outside of Bly-- particularly her employer-- the governess placed hope in chance meetings of random inidividuals. In her walk in the yard, the governess began to wish for the sight of her empoyer who she was still madly in love with. The governess's desire to see him and receive his reassuring approval conceived the ghost of what was later revealed to be Peter Quint she believed she had seen. Later in her climax of interaction with her ghosts, the governess is afraid that the master will come home, for she is fearful of what he will think of her.
In her initial contact with the two children, the governess expresses what is taken as a strange obsession with the appearences of the children and how that is related to their character. Before knowing or experiencing contact with Flora, the governess declares this child's beauty unsurpassable and convences herself that the child could do no wrong; all speculation through a simple glance. So taken by the appearence of Flora was the governess, that she couldn't find herself having a peaceful sleep for some nights after her arrival at Bly.
No sleep could pass the governess's eyes without continually casting thought to the meer beauty of the child she had met only days earlier. The meeting with the young master Miles only stringed the governess's infatuation with the physical features of the young children. After receiving by letter that Miles was expelled from school, the governess herself found malcontent for the boy, but her first glance at the boy on meeting him cast away all previous distaste.
