Gately, the wraith, and the figurants (p. 828)
The ceiling’s behaving itself, but in the room’s gray Gately could still make out a tallly insubstantial ghostish figure appearing and disappearing in the mist of his vision’s periphery. There was some creepy relationship between the figure’s postures and the passing nurses’ noiseless glide. This figure pretty definitely seemed to prefer night to day
Context
Geoffrey Day is at the bedside confessing to leaf-torture of his little brother, and mute feverish Gately keeps catching the pre-wraith at his vision's edge — now given habits. Carlisle's reading: the night-preference is Hamlet staging, "like the ghost of Hamlet's father"; recorded, not adopted. (The triple-l "tallly" is as the text has it.)