"This story is not really a sequel to Lettres d’Ogura. It's more like its "top of the iceberg" or its "dark side of the moon": the old lady is dead, but is she really? She has not become a wandering, unhappy soul, or one of those frightening ghosts that the living imagine. She is still herself, but she has lost her body. She is a subtle spirit who has retained her natural kindness and naivety."
(Hubert Delahaye)

Through the wanderings of the old lady who has become a ghost, we find her in her entirety, and the feeling of peace that comes from reading the book is the same, perhaps heightened by the fact that it evokes a kind of continuity after death.