Crossword-Solution: ALIDA 5 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

But that’s the story.” “That there’s a ghost, but that nobody knows it’s a ghost?” “Well--not till afterward, at any rate.” “Till afterward?” “Not till long, long afterward.” “But if it’s once been identified as an unearthly visitant, why hasn’t its signalement been handed down in the family? How has it managed to preserve its incognito?” Alida could only shake her head.

But it has.” “And then suddenly--” Mary spoke up as if from some cavernous depth of divination--“suddenly, long afterward, one says to one’s self, ‘THAT WAS it?’” She was oddly startled at the sepulchral sound with which her question fell on the banter of the other two, and she saw the shadow of the same surprise flit across Alida’s clear pupils.

The ghost--Alida’s imperceptible ghost--after figuring largely in the banter of their first month or two at Lyng, had been gradually discarded as too ineffectual for imaginative use.

Through the misty surgings of her brain she heard the faint boom of half-forgotten words--words spoken by Alida Stair on the lawn at Pangbourne before Boyne and his wife had ever seen the house at Lyng, or had imagined that they might one day live there.

Through the tumult she heard but one clear note, the voice of Alida Stair, speaking on the lawn at Pangbourne.