The narrator, who is given no name or gender, is one half of the living couple who now live in the "haunted house." The narrator seems to be the only living person able to perceive the ghostly couple, at first hearing them and, finally, at the end of the story, catching a glimpse of the ghosts in the light of a lamp.
The story is narrated in the first person by an unnamed female narrator and after reading the story the reader realises that VirginiaWoolfmay be theonewhonarratesthestory
