Actually, you know what? I think you are more right than I thought, Supplanter. Looking again at The Amen Corner, I see that there IS another man - the line about "taking solace in the words I despise" - but there's no real evidence that she's with this other guy, it just seems the other guy wants to be with her and is consoling her to get close to her.
And, "to reap the harvest that was mine", also from The Amen Corner, does lend credibility to your idea of the ghost wanting to kill her. But otherwise I think I'm right; he haunts her, chases her and scares her, but doesn't kill her. I think he realises at the last moment that forcing her to love him, and hurting her in the process, is wrong, and that it is better to have an eternity alone - thus atoning for his mistreatment of her, and resolving the issues that leave him on earth. Which is much like the movie "Jacob's Ladder", where the main character can't ascend to heaven until accepting the fact that he must leave his living relatives behind.
Actually, you know what? I think you are more right than I thought, Supplanter. Looking again at The Amen Corner, I see that there IS another man - the line about "taking solace in the words I despise" - but there's no real evidence that she's with this other guy, it just seems the other guy wants to be with her and is consoling her to get close to her.
And, "to reap the harvest that was mine", also from The Amen Corner, does lend credibility to your idea of the ghost wanting to kill her. But otherwise I think I'm right; he haunts her, chases her and scares her, but doesn't kill her. I think he realises at the last moment that forcing her to love him, and hurting her in the process, is wrong, and that it is better to have an eternity alone - thus atoning for his mistreatment of her, and resolving the issues that leave him on earth. Which is much like the movie "Jacob's Ladder", where the main character can't ascend to heaven until accepting the fact that he must leave his living relatives behind.