What go around come around & Who is haunting whom? p.8

[alice malice]

The frame narrative tells us that Wicks visits Mason's grave each day.
Then shifts to a free indirect and we learn that "The Verger" (Mason)
has taken to nodding at him."

Two men of the cloth, one who lingers and can't detach, one who has
departed and, now newly arrived at Death, seems  to correspond with
the living.

The stuff of Dreams?

When Wicks awakes he thinks that he has been haunting Mason, and not
the other way round, he is expecting that Mason, newly arrived at
death may help him with something, that Mason, a ghost with a
grievance has something to tell.

Mason, a troubled soul when Wicks knew him, anxious to haunt the Dead,
seems now haunted by Wicks.
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