John’ apprehensions about his wife’ reaction to her encounter with the ghost are mostly unfounded. Repeatedly he asks Helen, the ghost to disappear before his wife comes. He believes that his sensitive wife ‘can’t bear to have a mouse say boo at her’. The sight of a ghost in her own living-room would be unbearable for her. But Lavinia finds the ‘Owl-eyed phantom’ quite harmless. She finds that she is not the beautiful ‘Helen of Troy’. She doesn’t swoon but a satisfied smile spreads over her face.
