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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: down the dim, long room.
"Can it be the house?" she mused.
The room itself might have been full of secrets. They seemed to
be piling themselves up, as evening fell, like the layers and
layers of velvet shadow dropping from the low ceiling, the dusky
walls of books, the smoke-blurred sculpture of the hooded hearth.
"Why, of course--the house is haunted!" she reflected.
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. Mary
had, indeed, as became the tenant of a haunted house, made the
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