 As the house's demolition begins, Greenwood finally vanishes and in a final scene re-runs his last Christmas Eve party, reconciling with his wife, whom during his haunting he had realised that he had emotionally ill-treated during his lifetime.Writing in "The Sunday Times", the critic Harold Hobson called the original production of the play "extremely and touchingly human".Of the revival Dominic Cavendish writing in the "Telegraph" observed, "what a neglected little treasure it proves